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hunt up

verb

  1. tr to search for, esp successfully

    I couldn't hunt up a copy of it anywhere

  2. intr (of a bell) to be rung progressively earlier during a set of changes
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Example Sentences

With these ten Hunts, the first change in each Peal is made by hunting the whole Hunt up.

Give her a pretty room, and I think you'd better hunt up some young person to look after her.

I was consumedly amused by it, so was the whole family, and we proceeded to hunt up back Idlers and read the whole series.

"I've got to hunt up that wheel," murmured Chub, who appeared to be a bit dazed.

Funson told him to go and hunt up some cattle, and sent another man to drive the mules.

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