seal hunter

English

Noun

seal hunter (plural seal hunters)

1. Alternative form of seal-hunter
   • 1895, Bering Sea Tribunal of Arbitration, Fur Seal Arbitration - Volume 9, page 50:

     Niles Nelson, being duly sworn, deposes and says: I am by occupation a seal hunter, and part owner of the schooner Annie.

   • 2009, Mary Pope Osborne, Icy Escape!, page 30:

     “Long ago the polar bear taught us how to live in the ice and snow,” said the seal hunter.

   • 2013, C. Wilks, Emotion, Truth and Meaning: In Defense of Ayer and Stevenson:

     The theory can thus be seen as developing from the 'seed' which I planted in Chapter 1 when I claimed that the meaning of the judgement 'It is wrong to kill seal pups for their fur' was emotive, not simply because it involved an attempt on the judgement maker's part to influence the attitudes and behaviour of the seal hunter he directed it at, but because the rich descriptive meaning 'Anything which causes suffering', to which the judgement maker appealed in the course of justifying his judgement, was (i) a meaning of which he had been emotionally convicted (not by virtue of being subjected to someone else's persuasive use of moral language, but by the persuasive power of his own emotions), and (ii) a meaning in terms of which he pleaded his case before the court of the seal hunter's emotions.