Definition of "game-preserve" [game-preserve]

• A park or tract of land stocked with game preserved for sport. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "Your rich man, known to the trade as a great orderer of books, is like the owner of the great game-preserve, where the sport is heavy butchery; there is none of the real zest of the hunter of the wilderness to be had within his gates."
• "The "game-preserve" is neatly printed in colors, and the birds and wild animals are well worth hunting."
• ""Humph! The devil's game-preserve, you mean," Bunsen suddenly broke in."