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plain(s) hunt Hist. 
on the prairies, an organized hunt for buffalo.
See also: buffalo hunt
- 1861 When the plain-hunt fails, the farmer's produce is entirely relied on; when the crops fail, the hunters find ample market; but when both succeed, the market is at once overstocked.
- 1890 Immense numbers . . . had been annually slaughtered in the great plain hunt of the Red River half-breeds, a system . . . organized early in this century, and continued in full force down to about 1869, after which it began to languish.
- 1861 When the plain-hunt fails, the farmer's produce is entirely relied on; when the crops fail, the hunters find ample market; but when both succeed, the market is at once overstocked.