HAUNT
Haunt, n.
1. A place to which one frequently resorts; as, drinking saloons are the haunts of tipplers; a den is the haunt of wild beasts.
Note: In Old English the place occupied by any one as a dwelling or in his business was called a haunt.
Note: Often used figuratively.
The household nook, The haunt of all affections pure. Keble.
The feeble soul, a haunt of fears. Tennyson.
2. The habit of resorting to a place. [Obs.] The haunt you have got about the courts. Arbuthnot.
3. Practice; skill. [Obs.] Of clothmaking she hadde such an haunt. Chaucer.
HAUNTED
Haunt"ed, a.
Defn: Inhabited by, or subject to the visits of, apparitions;
frequented by a ghost.
All houses wherein men have lived and died Are haunted houses.
Longfellow.
HAUNTER
Haunt"er, n.
Defn: One who, or that which, haunts.