hunting box

noun

, Chiefly British.

1. a hunting lodge or house near or in a hunting area for use during the hunting season.

Word History and Origins

Origin of hunting box¹

First recorded in 1790–1800

Example Sentences

But hunting still holds a place in his heart, he said, recalling a recent visit from his son, back home from the Navy, when they went out in a 15-foot-high hunting box one morning to shoot turkey and wild hogs.

From Los Angeles Times

It was built in 1721-1724 by Frederick Augustus II., elector of Saxony, subsequently King Augustus III. of Poland, as a hunting box, and was often the scene of brilliant festivities.

From Project Gutenberg

A lady, the widow of a wealthy civil servant in India, having returned to her native land laden with the riches of the East, being still young and excessively fond of riding, purchased a stud of first-class hunters, took a nice little hunting box in Leicestershire for the season, and engaged the services of a very good man to pilot her.

From Project Gutenberg

We have had two days in the country with the D.s at their little hunting box at Bicester, one of the great hunting centres.

From Project Gutenberg

Humphrey had so far taken to heart his father's criticisms upon his metropolitan mode of life that he had let his flat for the winter and taken a hunting box in Northamptonshire, at which Bobby Trench was a frequent visitor.

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