• Seal-hunter

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    seal-hunter

    (plural seal-hunters)
    1. One who hunts seals.
      • 2011 , David Grumett, ‎Rachel Muers , Eating and Believing, ...who ekes out a living from fishing in the North Sea, or a nomadic tribesman, or an Inuit seal-hunter.
      • 2014 , Hinrich Rink, ‎Robert Brown , Tales and Traditions of the Eskimo , In this they both succeeded ; and the brother turned out to be an excellent seal-hunter besides.
      • 2016 , Mike Hulme , Weathered: Cultures of Climate, What people know about their climate is also influenced by the cultures of meaning into which they are born (what an Inuit seal-hunter knows about climate will be different to what a Chinese city-dweller knows) and by the cultures of knowledge practice through which they become disciplined (a climatologist knows climate differently to an anthropologist).
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