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noun Chiefly British.
a small house or lodge for use during the shooting season.
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Also called shooting lodge .
Origin of shooting box
First recorded in 1805–15
Words nearby shooting box
shooter,
shoot for,
shoot from the hip,
shootie,
Shoot, if you must, this old gray head,
shooting box,
shooting brake,
shooting gallery,
shooting guard,
shooting iron,
shooting match Dictionary.com Unabridged
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How to use shooting box in a sentence
Policemen on the show joke about prison riots, bomb threats, and the shooting of unarmed civilians.
In the first episode, an officer is shown video of himself shooting and killing a man.
Then they came up against a police patrol on mountain bicycles, which again led to more shooting, without injuries.
He appears only normal, even in video footage from just two minutes before the shooting.
The phone is apparently the one he took from his girlfriend after shooting her outside Baltimore and heading for New York.
Then one of the magter came in and Brion hesitated before shooting.
Beside her was a box of bonbons, which she held out at intervals to Madame Ratignolle.
Now and then the boy who had bought Squinty, and who was taking him home, would look around at his pet in the slatted box.
The little pig in the box felt himself being lifted out of the wagon.
Mrs. Newbolt was cutting splints for her new sun-bonnet out of a pasteboard box.
British Dictionary definitions for shooting box
noun
a small country house providing accommodation for a shooting party during the shooting seasonAlso called: shooting lodge
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