rabbiting
Pursuing warren dwellers
Rabbiting is hunting rabbits, typically with dogs, ferrets, or guns.
In British slang, to rabbit (from Cockney rhyming slang "rabbit and pork" = talk) means to chatter on at length: She was rabbiting away about her holiday.
The noun rabbiting refers to either activity: He goes rabbiting on weekends.
Domesticated polecat relatives
- snareDevice for catching prey
- beaglesCompact scent hounds
- houndsDogs bred to track
- boltingDeparting at speed
nets · lamping · lurchers · terriers · gamekeeper · poaching · trapping · quarry
ferrets
Domesticated polecat relatives
bolting · nets · lamping · lurchers · terriers · gamekeeper · poaching · trapping · quarry · prey
warren
Interconnected underground tunnels
den · hole · underground · chamber · nesting · excavation · earth · bolt-hole · network · colony
prattling
Speaking trivially at length
- ramblingLong-winded and unfocused
- natteringAimless, trivial chatter
- blatheringTalking foolishly at length
gabbing · chattering · wittering · yammering · droning · babbling · gossip · waffle · talking · jabbering
- country pursuitsfox hunting, pheasant shooting, deer stalking, fly fishing, beagling
- Sighthoundssighthound, Irish Wolfhound, greyhound, whippet, saluki
rabbitingfishing
Catching aquatic creatures
angling · big game hunting · whaling · deer stalking · fowling
rabbitingstaying put
Remaining in place
staying · remaining · waiting · holding ground · standing one's ground
rabbitingsilence
Total lack of sound
keeping quiet · shutting up · being silent · keeping mum · saying nothing
- rabbiting onTalking too much