Definition of "hunting-box" [hunting-box]

• In Great Britain, a small house intended to be occupied only during the hunting season. Such a house is commonly called shooting-box in the United States. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "It was built by James I. as a hunting-box for his son, Prince Henry, but ere the house was finished the young prince was dead, and all the promise of his short life gone with him."
• "It was built by Jean Burckhardt, Count of Barth, for a hunting-box."
• "Cannock Chase, which covered the elevations to our right, was still an ideal hunting-country, as its surface was hilly and diversified, and a combination of moorland and forest, while the mansions of the noblemen who patronised the "Hunt" surrounded it on all sides, that named "Beau-Desert," the hall or hunting-box of the Marquis of Anglesey, being quite near to our road."