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goose hunt Hist. 
at the Hudson Bay trading posts, an organized shoot during the spring and fall migration to lay in a supply of geese to be salted or frozen for food.
See also: first goose
- 1784 (1954) . . . packing and getting things in readiness for the Goose hunt at the Eastward. . . .
- 1834 (1947) . . . upon the Fall "Goose Hunt" as it is called, the living of the people at the different posts on the sea coast depends.
- 1963 The fall of 1816, even at Big River, was a bad one for country provisions as the goose hunt had proved indifferent. . . .
- 1784 (1954) . . . packing and getting things in readiness for the Goose hunt at the Eastward. . . .