shooting box
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of shooting box
First recorded in 1805–15
Example Sentences
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When the late Tobaccoman Pierre Lorillard set up a shooting box on the site in 1887, Patterson and his father became his friends, grew intimate also with Parrimans, Tilfords, Rogerses, Wagstaffs, Bakers.
From Time Magazine Archive
It is a gloomy but only mildly exciting chronicle about a turn-of-the-century chorus girl whose characteristic for being present at deaths by violence makes the house on 56th Street resemble a shooting box.
From Time Magazine Archive
They built a modern palace on the Canadian side of Niagara Falls, bought show places at Bar Harbor and Palm Beach, a house in London and a shooting box in Sussex.
From Time Magazine Archive
I've a friend who owns a shooting box a few miles across the border.
From Arms and the Woman by MacGrath, Harold
The property, hopelessly degenerated as an agricultural estate, had still some value as a fishing or shooting box, and there was a chance that some wealthy Englishman might buy it for that purpose.
From The Tragic Bride by Young, Francis Brett
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