hunt's-up

[ huhnts-uhp ]

noun

1. (formerly) a call played on a hunting horn in the morning to rouse and assemble the participants in a hunt.

Word History and Origins

Origin of hunt's-up¹

1530–40; from phrase ( the ) hunt is up

Example Sentences

Since arm from arm that voice doth us affray, Hunting thee hence with hunt’s-up to the day.

From Project Gutenberg

So when, next morning, Gawayne once more heard The hunt's-up in the court, he never stirred, But let the merry horsemen ride away While he slept soundly well into the day.

From Project Gutenberg

So dreamy-soft the notes, so far away They seem to fall, the horns of Oberon Blow their faint Hunt's-up from the good-time gone; Or, on a morning of long-withered May, Larks tinkle unseen o'er Claudian arches gray, That Romeward crawl from Dreamland; and anon My fancy flings her cloak of Darkness on, To vanish from the dungeon of To-day.

From Project Gutenberg

Why was a certain noise called the “hunt’s-up?”

From Project Gutenberg

Since arm from arm that voice doth us affray, Hunting thee hence with hunt's-up to the day.

From Project Gutenberg