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n.
a method of hunting animals such as antelope, caribou, buffalo, etc. by surrounding them and keeping them penned in while as many as possible were slaughtered.
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1811
[. . . abt Dusk they arrived, havg killed 8 Chevruil but complain they are too few to surround them well being only 22 reckoning Boys.]
1907
Work in the interior then closes for the year, though in February many of the Indians travel inland a day's journey to the main herd of the wintering caribou, and conduct a "surround."
1956
The use of the pound seems to have been largely dropped when the Indians got rifles and horses, for they then adopted another way of hunting, called the surround.