game-keeper

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Noun[edit]

game-keeper (plural game-keepers)

  1. Alternative form of gamekeeper.
    • 1814 July, [Jane Austen], chapter XII, in Mansfield Park: […], volume I, London: […] T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 237:
      The approach of September brought tidings of Mr. Bertram first in a letter to the game-keeper, and then in a letter to Edmund; […]
    • 1819, Sydney Smith, “The Game Laws”, in Edinburgh Review:
      Not a cessation of poaching, but a succession of village guerillas; - an internecive war between the game-keepers and the marauders of game.
    • 1823, "Select Society, With Observations on the Modern Art of Matchmaking", in The New Monthly Magazine,by C. M., pub. E. W. Allen,, volume 8 pages 91-92:
      Then, Alas! any body was company for every body and the first lord of the land did not think it shame, faute de mieux, to take up with the conversation of his butler, or his game-keeper, over a tankard; while the young ladies, faute de tout, danced "Bobbing Joan," with the rest of the domestics in the servants' hall.
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