Definition of "bee-hunter" [bee-hunter]

• One who hunts or searches for swarms of wild bees. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "Still they must often suffer, but they are used to the pain and learn to bear it impassively, as without doing so no man could be a bee-hunter."
• "The bee-hunter now took hold of the bush-rope just above the torch and passed the other end around the trunk of the tree, holding one end in each hand."
• "Indians, desperadoes and wild beasts, but he finally got to the neighborhood of San Antonio, and fell in with another adventurer, a bee-hunter, also on his way to join the Texans."