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Shooting lodge   /ʃˈutɪŋ lɑdʒ/   Listen
Shooting lodge

noun
1.
A small country house used by hunters during the shooting season.  Synonym: shooting box.






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"Shooting lodge" Quotes from Famous Books



... there is to it," summarized Mr. Farbish, succinctly. "If we can get these two men, South and Horton, together down there at the shooting lodge, under the proper conditions, they'll do the rest themselves, I think. I'll take care of South. Now, it's up to you to have Horton there ...
— The Call of the Cumberlands • Charles Neville Buck

... Affairs, the Earl of Bracondale had but little time in which to enjoy his beautiful residences. True, he spent a few weeks on the Riviera in winter, shot once or twice over the Bracondale coverts in the season, and spent an annual fortnight up at the shooting lodge in Scotland; but he was usually to be found either at Downing Street or down at Bracondale immersed and absorbed by ...
— The White Lie • William Le Queux

... Cedric's order not to light it. There were shooting lodges and forester's cabins, other abodes there were none save the old monastery, and to which of these places to go was left altogether to the toss of a penny. Beside, they were not sure of finding a shooting lodge, should they start for it; the night was so black and the paths so numerous and winding. Very often Cedric would stop and listen for the tramp of horses' feet; but there was naught save the occasional cracking of twigs as some wild thing jumped from the roadside frightened, or the stir of the ...
— Mistress Penwick • Dutton Payne



Words linked to "Shooting lodge" :   shooting box, country house



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