vbl. sb. U.S. [f. STILL a. + HUNTING vbl. sb.] The practice of hunting game in a stealthy and noiseless manner.
1831. Audubon, Ornith., I. 335. Still Hunting is followed as a kind of trade by most of our frontier men.
1847. Ruxton, Adv. Mexico, xxxii. 301. There are two methods of hunting buffalo—one on horseback,… the other by ‘still hunting,’ that is, ‘approaching,’ or stalking, by taking advantage of the wind and any cover the ground affords.
1856. Mayne Reid, Hunters’ Feast, xxiii. 193. The simplest and most common is that which is termed ‘still’ hunting.
