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
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
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
In the wild and lovely district where the North Tyne takes its rise, is Kielder Castle, a shooting box belonging to the Duke of Northumberland.
From Northumberland Yesterday and To-day by Terry, Jean F. (Jean Finlay)
"One doesn't have to go to a shooting box to bag it, though," said Sallaconi, mischievously.
From Castle Craneycrow by McCutcheon, George Barr
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