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Hickory Creek Hunt - Fox hunting terminology Category: Sport and Leisure > Fox Hunting Date & country: 23/08/2013, USA Words: 22

Button
To receive or be awarded the button is to be given the right to wear the hunt buttons.

Cast
1.(n) A planned move in searching for a lost line. 2.(v) To make a cast. Hounds may cast themselves, or the huntsman may cast them.

Check
1.(n) An interruption of the run caused by hounds losing the line. 2.(v) Hounds check when they lose the line temporarily.

Coffee House
To talk at a time when it is necessary for staff to be listening for hounds.

Colors
The distinctive colors that distinguish the uniform of one hunt from another. Usually a distinctive color of collar on the coat. To be awarded or given the colors is to be given the right to wear them and hunt buttons.

Couple
1.(n) Two hounds (either sex), for convenience in counting. 2.(n) A device for keeping two hounds attached to each other for convenience in control or training. 3.(v) To attach two hounds together by use of couples.

Cub
A young fox.

Cubhunting
Early hunting before the formal season

Fieldmaster
The person designated by the MFH to control the field.

Fixture
The time and place of the meet or assembly of the hunt. A fixture card is a listing sent out of the fixtures for a given period.

Hunting Whip
This assembly of crop, thong and lash is known as a hunting whip, incorretly as a crop or hunting crop. It is the only correct whip or crop to carry when hunting.

Huntsman
The person who controls hounds in the field.

Lark
To jump fences unnecessarily when hounds are not running, or on non-hunting days.

Line
The trail of the fox.

Master
The MFH. The person (or persons; then joint MFHs) in command of the hunt in field and kennels.

Ratcatcher
Informal hunting attire. Correct for cubhunting, guests or when ever specified by the fixture card.

Riot
Hounds are said to riot when they hunt anything that they should not.

Scent
The smell of a fox and the physical and chemical phenomena by which the smell gets from the fox's footprints to the hound's nose. Scent can be good or bad, meaning easy to follow or difficult. It depends in general on weather.

Staff
The huntsman and whippers-in.

View
(v or n)See (or sight of) the fox.

View Holloa
The cry given by a staff member on viewing a fox.

Whipper-in
A staff member who assists the huntsman in the control of the hounds.