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shooting box

noun

, Chiefly British.
  1. a small house or lodge for use during the shooting season.


shooting box

noun

  1. a small country house providing accommodation for a shooting party during the shooting season Also calledshooting lodge


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Word History and Origins

Origin of shooting box1

First recorded in 1805–15

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Example Sentences

I have a pleasant little shooting-box at the foot of Ben Lone.

The Bullers at one time lived chiefly in Cornwall, and Downes was originally a shooting-box.

There was a fine course inland, a cross-country going of not less than twenty miles, a shooting-box, and excellent golf-links.

A few moments later the two men, opening the door of the shooting-box, plunged into a murk of blue tobacco smoke.

The Tsar has a shooting-box here in the midst of beautiful woods, and two rooms had been set apart in this house for our Column.

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