hunting-box

(hun’ting-boks), n. In Great Brit- ain, a small house intended to be oceupied only during the hunting season. Such a house is commonly called shooting-box in the United States. It was apparently originally erected as a hunting-box on the edge of the desert for the use of the Persian king. J. Fergu on, Hist, Arch., I. 387, 2922 hunting-cap (hun’ting-kap), ». A cap worn in the hunting-field, resembling a jockey-cap, but stiffer and harder. One of those horsey-looking men who are to be found in all hunting-fields, who wear old breeches, old hunting caps. Trollope, Eustace Diamonds, xxxvii.