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Shooting box   /ʃˈutɪŋ bɑks/   Listen
Shooting box

noun
1.
A small country house used by hunters during the shooting season.  Synonym: shooting lodge.






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"Shooting box" Quotes from Famous Books



... IX, from his father's more modest shooting box, La Muette became the centre of the court of Marguerite de Navarre, the first wife of Henri IV; after which it served as the habitation of the dauphin, who ...
— Royal Palaces and Parks of France • Milburg Francisco Mansfield

... I was there. Then it was a big, comfortable shooting box, with a good cook, an old-fashioned barn, and, behind it, kennels for half a dozen clever dogs. Now it was triple its former size, rebuilt and modernized, with many bedrooms, a double-deck piazza and a dancing floor. The barn was gone, a fine stable had taken its place, and tennis courts and ...
— Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 6, July 1905 • Various

... been this first price, undoubtedly, that appealed to Sidney Dallam, model for all husbands: to Sidney, who had had as much of an idea of buying in Quicksands as of acquiring a Scotch shooting box. The "Faraday place" had belonged to the middle ages, as time is reckoned in Quicksands, and had lain deserted for years, chiefly on account of its lugubrious and funereal aspect. It was on a corner. Two "for ...
— The Crossing • Winston Churchill

... August; Billy was to have at least a week; Anna had been promised the fortnight of Susan's freedom, and Jimmy and Betsey could hardly wait for the camping trip they planned to take all together to the little shooting box in the mountains. ...
— Saturday's Child • Kathleen Norris



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