gamekeeper









gamekeeper


noun

  1. a person employed, as on an estate or game preserve, to prevent poaching and provide a natural environment conducive to the propagation of game, as by thinning brush, scattering food after a snowstorm, and the like.

noun

  1. a person employed to take care of game and wildlife, as on an estate
n.

1660s, from game (n.) in the animal sense + agent noun from keep (v.).

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