live on the country

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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subsist on the food available in a region, as game, fish, berries.

Quotations

1942

They were said to live largely on the country, hunting ptarmigan and catching fish.

1953

There were no human beings within fifty miles, but the dogs, living on the country, were fat as butter.

1965

Without this wild reindeer the country would be uninhabitable by Eskimos and Indians living "on the land". . . .