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start verb To arouse (a game animal) for a hunt.
1878 Coale Wilburn Waters 40 Next morning they were all on the ground at an early hour, and started the wolf within fifty yards of where the trap had been set. 1926 Hunnicutt Twenty Years 160 I told the boys to turn their dogs loose for Old Muse had started a bear. 1939 Hall Coll (Nine Mile TN) He says for us drivers to go to the Calhoun Ridge and start this bear. 1941 Stuart Men of Mts 234 The dogs take to the hills to start the fox.