Definition of Shooting box

1. Noun. A small country house used by hunters during the shooting season.

Exact synonyms: Shooting Lodge
Generic synonyms: Country House

Lexicographical Neighbors of Shooting Box

shoot through like a Bondi tram
shoot up
shootable
shootaround
shootarounds
shootdown
shootdowns
shooted
shooter
shooters
shooteth
shootin'
shooting
shooting-iron
shooting-spree
shooting box (current term)
shooting brake
shooting circle
shooting circles
shooting galleries
shooting gallery
shooting guard
shooting guards
shooting iron
shooting lodge
shooting one's load
shooting preserve
shooting preserves
shooting range
shooting ranges

Literary usage of Shooting box

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"This governor made him Court painter and showered various commissions upon him, among them the decorations of a shooting box which the received back into ..."

2. In and Beyond the Himálayas: A Record of Sport and Travel in the Abode of Snow by Samuel James Stone (1896)
"... "halal"—Mirza Khan's capacity for meat—Another shooting-box of Mirza Khan's—Spend a night in a watercourse—A bit of Kashmir in a rough setting—Inhabited ..."

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