gamekeeper

gamekeeper
gamekeeping, n.
/gaym"kee'peuhr/, n.
a person employed, as on an estate or game preserve, to prevent poaching and provide a natural environment conducive to the propagation of game, as by thinning brush, scattering food after a snowstorm, and the like.
[1660-70; GAME1 + KEEPER]

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