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заседки

English translation: blind/hunting blind


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17:30 Jan 2, 2012
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Russian term or phrase: заседки
Type of hunting.

Однажды, возвращаясь с заседки (вид охоты на зайцев, когда сидишь, притаившись, на опушке леса и подстерегаешь зайцев, выходящих в поле, или лисиц, крадущихся за зайцами), я остановилась возле скирды соломы,
Deborah Hoffman
Local time: 07:57
English translation:blind/hunting blind
Explanation:
perhaps a typo for - засИдка?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunting_blind



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Oleksiy Markunin
Ukraine
Local time: 14:57
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3 +2blind/hunting blind
Oleksiy Markunin
5lying-in-wait
Alexandra Taggart
3still-huntDylan Edwards


  

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6 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +2
blind/hunting blind


Explanation:
perhaps a typo for - засИдка?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunting_blind



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Oleksiy Markunin
Ukraine
Local time: 14:57
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Russian
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agree  Kiwiland Bear
3 hrs
  -> Thanks, Kiwiland =)

agree  cyhul
10 days
  -> Thanks!
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2 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5
lying-in-wait


Explanation:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/petrokholyavchuk/5823458357/

Alexandra Taggart
Russian Federation
Local time: 15:57
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in RussianRussian
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still-hunt


Explanation:
Starting with "ambush", "stalk" and related terms, I've come across the term "still-hunt", and I'd like to suggest it here as an idea.

stalking, still hunt, stalk - a hunt for game carried on by following it stealthily or waiting in ambush
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/Hunt

1. to still-hunt a hare, although, to me at least, it is a very interesting task. Cur- iously enough, the men who scoff at it, and exclaim in the vulgar tongue ...
www.la84foundation.org/SportsLibrary/Outing/.../outXLIII05o...

1. Virginia hunting guide - Google Books Result
books.google.co.uk/books?isbn=0813910412...Bob Gooch - 1985 - Sports & Recreation - 236 pages
Unlike the cottontail, the hare seldom if ever holes up. Hunters without hounds can still-hunt, walking slowly through an area where there is plenty of sign ...


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It's also worth looking for "still-hunting":

Oregon Hunter Safety Course - Still Huntingwww.hunter-ed.com/or/course/ch4_strategies_still_hunting.htmCached - Similar
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7 Oct 2010 – Hunter safety education and hunting license course: Still hunting strategy. ... Still hunting often involves stopping for long periods to scan and listen for game. As the name implies, still hunting is walking stealthily through an ...


Dylan Edwards
Local time: 12:57
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 34

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
neutral  Alexandra Taggart: Now...Still-hunting works for birds,it may work for some mammals,but not for hare.I know for sure, that putting a scare-crow in your garden will turn the hares away (they tend to eat the bark of young apple trees),the human standin/sittin still makes no f
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