hunting

name

1. A surname.

noun

Etymology: From Middle English hunting, from Old English huntung, equivalent to hunt + -ing.

1. The act of finding and killing a wild animal, either for sport or with the intention of using its parts to make food, clothes, etc.

   “His pictures of huntings are particularly admired: the figures and animals of every species being designed with uncommon spirit, nature, and truth.”

2. The act of looking for something, especially for a job or flat.
3. Fluctuation or oscillation that does not stabilize.

   “Bogie hunting is not caused by some sort of periodic disturbance but by dynamic instability; the oscillatory system is not the bogies alone but the complete assembly of bogie-plus-body; and variations in track rigidity do not affect the nature of the motion, only its intensity.”

4. The process of determining which of a group of telephone lines will receive a call.

verb

Etymology: From Middle English huntynge, alteration of earlier Middle English huntinde, huntende, huntand, present participle of hunten (“to hunt”), equivalent to hunt + -ing.

1. present participle and gerund of hunt

   “Even in an era when individuality in dress is a cult, his clothes were noticeable. He was wearing a hard hat of the low round kind favoured by hunting men, and with it a black duffle-coat lined with white.”