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.
☞ In Old English the place occupied by any one as a dwelling or in his business was called a haunt.
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.
The haunt you have got about the courts. Arbuthnot.
3. Practice; skill.
Of clothmaking she hadde such an haunt. Chaucer.