hunt's-up

English

Noun

hunt's-up (plural hunt's-ups)

  1. (obsolete) A tune played on the horn very early in the morning to call out the hunters; hence, any rousing sound or call.
    Time plays the hunt's-up to thy sleepy head. — Drayton.
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for hunt's-up in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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