Each manor may have only one gamekeeper allowed to kill game such as hare, pheasant, partridge and only for his household's use.
He laid his snares accordingly overnight, but they were discovered, and taken away by the gamekeeper of the gentleman to whom the ground belonged.
I have already had to intercede for him with the gamekeeper.
One day he was fishing with another boy when a gamekeeper suddenly darted forth from a thicket.
There are no houses near, and no people in it except a few gamekeepers: I spent long days in it without meeting a human being.
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The numbers of gamekeepers returned in the decennial censuses is a useful surrogate measure of this.
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References to affrays with poaching colliers frequently appear in the portraits of gamekeepers in this journal.
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There is no accurate data on other estates close to the study area, but cases reported by the gamekeepers were sporadic rather than massive.
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He questions the distinction between subsistence and commerce while offering examples of poachers turned gamekeepers and gamekeepers colluding with poachers.
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Data from private and government gamekeepers regarding the number of livestock in each study area were obtained through personal interviews.
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In the southern lakeland, gamekeepers use traps on badgers.
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Where traps have failed, hunts are being called out to help gamekeepers, farmers, water bailiffs and fishery managers.
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They work in harmony with gamekeepers and with water bailiffs.
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Gamekeepers and water bailiffs who man many rivers call in mink hunts to sweep the rivers in order to get rid of mink.
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One can become wrapped up in the emotive language of raptors, gamekeepers and the like.
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I see they have gone so far as to appoint agamekeeper, and that they have introduced some grouse.
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I know that there are not many shepherds, hill farmers and gamekeepers living in the remote access areas concerned, but they still have voices.
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There are five gamekeepers on the estate protecting the hares which are destroying food, and there are 20,000 of them in this country.
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In the rural districts there are people like gamekeepers, shepherds, rural postmen and others, who are constantly doing a tour of duty.
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They are in danger from gamekeepers and shepherds.
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