shooting box

American

noun

Chiefly British.

a small house or lodge for use during the shooting season.

shooting box British

noun

Also called: shooting lodge. a small country house providing accommodation for a shooting party during the shooting season

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Etymology

Origin of shooting box

First recorded in 1805–15

Example Sentences

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“You go to the shooting range and watch people shoot,” he said, “and they are shooting boxes and boxes and boxes and cases and cases and cases of shells in the ranges.”

From Seattle Times

I shall have a shooting box in Scotland and a town house in London.

From Project Gutenberg

“Oh!” he responded again, “that is a shooting box of Lord Killfots.”

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In Great Britain, these residences would be designated as "shooting boxes."

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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.

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