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Definition of Fox hunting
1. Noun. Mounted hunters follow hounds in pursuit of a fox.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fox Hunting
Literary usage of Fox hunting
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Nineteenth Century (1898)
"FOX-HUNTING AND AGRICULTURE FOX-HUNTING has long been regarded as one of the
principal factors in our agricultural economy. If it were, what some of its ..."
2. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1869)
"FOX-HUNTING AT ROMK BY FREDERIC A. EATON. A VISITOR unacquainted with the habits
and ways of Rome, had chance taken him, any Monday or Thursday morning last ..."
3. Hunting the Fox (1921)
"For the immediate consequence of mobilization was the recognition of Fox-hunting
as a first-class national asset. It is not too much to say that the ..."
4. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1910)
"The precise date of the establishment of the first English pack of hounds kept
entirely for fox hunting cannot be accurately fixed. ..."
5. Social Life in the Reign of Queen Anne: Taken from Original Sources by John Ashton (1882)
"... love of hunting—Sir Roger de Coverley —Fox-hunting—Stag-hunting—Hare-hunting—
Coursing—Packs of hounds—Fishing—Hawking—Netting—The Game Act—Shooting, ..."
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