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A tweed of gamekeepers?

One of the topics of conversation at lunch with a big group of gamekeepers yesterday was what the collective noun for a group of keepers might be.

Here are some of the suggestions:

1 A tweed
2 A brood
3 A clutch (I don't like this one: it reminds me too much of DH Lawrence's keeper, Oliver Mellors, he'd have been a clutcher!)
4 A cartridge
5 A quartering
6 A trap
7 A flight
8 A killing (this one would probably be used by people who don't approve of their work)
9 A double barrel
10 An over-and-under

Suggestions please...

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