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stander noun One of a group of hunters assigned to a fixed position or stand to await especially bear or deer being driven within shooting range by drivers.
1883 Zeigler and Grosscup Heart of Alleghanies 48 It is a shelter only for the time being; no one expects to return to it, for by the following night the hounds may be 20 miles away, and the drivers and standers toasting bear steaks in their cabins, or encamping on some distant height. 1923 Williams After Bruin Breakfast over, the standers set out up the creek for the various stands.1939 Hall Coll (Deep Creek NC) Our drivers driv that Easy Ridge and Pole Road, that’s on the west side of Deep Creek, and the standers stood on the Bear Wallow Ridge beyond Bear Creek. 1976 Bear Hunting 281 On the morning of the hunt, “standers” would be put out on ridges overlooking gaps that the bear would be likely to pass through once the dogs started chasing it. Once they were in place, the dogs would be put on the trail, and hopefully the bear would be located, and then either killed by one of the standers as it fled by, or, treed by the dogs and held in one place until the hunters could get there and kill it. 2008 Plott Hunting in Smokies 54 [He had] some of his hunting partners handle some of his start dogs as they struck a trail, while he would position himself.