pothunter

Meaning

  1. A person who hunts animals for food (for the pot) rather than as sport.
  2. A person who competes solely to win prizes.
  3. A person who seeks artifacts for their personal collection or to sell without regard to their cultural importance.

Etymology

From pot + hunter – in hunting sense, “for the (cooking) pot (to eat)”; in the archeology sense, “seeking old pots (to sell)”.

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