'To hunt counter' definitions:
Definition of 'To hunt counter'
From: GCIDE
- Hunt \Hunt\, v. i.
- 1. To follow the chase; to go out in pursuit of game; to course with hounds. [1913 Webster]
- Esau went to the field to hunt for venison. --Gen. xxvii. 5. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To seek; to pursue; to search; -- with for or after. [1913 Webster]
- He after honor hunts, I after love. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 3. (Mach.) To be in a state of instability of movement or forced oscillation, as a governor which has a large movement of the balls for small change of load, an arc-lamp clutch mechanism which moves rapidly up and down with variations of current, or the like; also, to seesaw, as a pair of alternators working in parallel. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
- 4. (Change Ringing) To shift up and down in order regularly. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
- To hunt counter, to trace the scent backward in hunting, as a hound to go back on one's steps. [Obs.] --Shak. [1913 Webster]