Definition of "hunting-match" [hunting-match]

• A competition between shooters of game. Usually the several species of game killed are scored by a scale of points, and the match is won by the side scoring the highest number of points. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "Douglas Castle upon a solemn hunting-match, which had for its object the wild cattle of the neighbouring dale."
• "A hunting-match has still its attractions, even though an English knight take his pleasure in the woods of the Douglas."
• "The moment after these thoughts had passed through her mind, the tramp of a horse was heard approaching; and Sir John de Walton, pressing through the trees, became aware of the presence of his lady, captive, as it seemed, in the grasp of a Scottish outlaw, who was only known to him by his former audacity at the hunting-match."