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gamekeeper

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gamekeeper

Person employed to rear and preserve game birds for shooting. Gamekeepers are also responsible for much of the organization of shooting parties.

It is the gamekeeper's task to rear the birds (usually under artificial conditions) and to release them into a protected environment. They must then be guarded against disease, natural predators, and poachers. During the shooting season the gamekeeper advises the landowner on the details of each day's activities and directs the beaters who ‘flush out’ the birds towards the waiting guns.
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A word or two concerning a squire, and more relating to a gamekeeper and a schoolmaster.
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Obeying this order, we found, or rather I found--for the gamekeeper was a poor hand at reading anything but print--the following important news:
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Take care of it,' said he, 'and don't let it go near the rabbit-warren, for the gamekeeper swears he'll shoot it if he sees it there again: he would have done so to-day, if I had not been in time to stop him.
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