hunt up

verb

1. tr to search for, esp successfully

   I couldn't hunt up a copy of it anywhere

2. intr (of a bell) to be rung progressively earlier during a set of changes

Example Sentences

With these ten Hunts, the first change in each Peal is made by hunting the whole Hunt up.

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Give her a pretty room, and I think you'd better hunt up some young person to look after her.

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I was consumedly amused by it, so was the whole family, and we proceeded to hunt up back Idlers and read the whole series.

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"I've got to hunt up that wheel," murmured Chub, who appeared to be a bit dazed.

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Funson told him to go and hunt up some cattle, and sent another man to drive the mules.

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