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ice-hunter Nfld 
n. a person taking part in the seal fishery.
See also: ice ((n.)) (def. 1) seal fishery seal hunter
- 1861 One of the shipwrecked men saved from the schooner had been an ice-hunter, and whiled away many an hour by relating the mode of catching seals in the spring of the year on the coast of Newfoundland.
- 1896 (1965) From Trinity, Ship Cove, Trouty . . . and other small places, the daring ice hunters set off with high hopes . . . to chase the wary seal. . . .
- 1964 The large credits in the spring are obviously for marine ironwork, gunsmithing, etc., etc. done for Ridley's ice-hunters.
- 1861 One of the shipwrecked men saved from the schooner had been an ice-hunter, and whiled away many an hour by relating the mode of catching seals in the spring of the year on the coast of Newfoundland.