park – Originally a legal term for land held by royal grant for the keeping of game animals for royals to hunt. More…
sealer, sealing – A sealer is a seal hunter and seal hunting is called sealing. More…
half-cocked – Comes from hunting; a gun at half cock is in the safety position—so it came to mean “incompletely prepared.” More…
tryst – Comes from Scottish as a variant of an old word, trist, “an appointed place or station in hunting,” and now means a “secret meeting of lovers.” More…