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driver noun A hunter (usually with dogs) who flushes and pursues game toward one or more other waiting hunters or standers.
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 preparatory to resuming on the morrow the chase of a bruin who had through one day eluded their pursuit. 1939 Hall Coll (Nine Mile TN) He says for us drivers to go to the Calhoun Ridge and start this bear. 1976 Bear Hunting 281 The drivers, they were the men that led a dog through the woods to pick up the track. 2008 Plott Hunting in Smokies 54 The hunters with the strike dogs are “drivers,” who hit a bear trail and run a bear toward the stander, who either makes a kill himself or releases more bear dogs to “pack” the trail.