shooting box
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of shooting box
First recorded in 1805–15
Example Sentences
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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
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
"One doesn't have to go to a shooting box to bag it, though," said Sallaconi, mischievously.
From Castle Craneycrow by McCutcheon, George Barr
We make it quite unambiguous that we have other plans for her—plans that usually include a steam yacht and a shooting box north of Inverness.
From The "Goldfish" by Train, Arthur Cheney
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