Definition of "gamekeeper" []

• One who is employed to protect and maintain game birds and animals, especially on an estate or a game preserve. (noun)

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• "i love reading your adventures in england ... you have been hitting my favorite haunts in notting hill and making me very nostalgic ... when we lived there, we let a place in the countryside and I made friends with the gamekeeper from the manor up the road."
• "The duke inquires contemptuously whether his gamekeeper is the equal of the Astronomer Royal; but he insists that they shall both be hanged equally if they murder him."
• "Obeying this order, we found, or rather I found -- for the gamekeeper was a poor hand at reading anything but print -- the following important news:"