battue

• In cases where the chase takes the form of a “battue,” a species of horizontal bar is affixed at right angles to the tree beside which the emperor stands, and it is on this support that the kaiser rests his gun when shooting at the driven game. —  The Secret Memoirs of the Courts of Europe: William II, Germany; Francis Joseph, Austria-Hungary, Volume I
• It was to have been a battue, he explained. —  Chatterbox, 1906
• In a few minutes all was over; those who had escaped were once more hid, panting, in the neighbouring jungles, while those who had fallen covered the ground, in every direction, and in every variety Very fine tiger-hunt, sar," observed the interpreter to Courtenay, with exultation Very fine indeed: Seymour, this is something like a battue. —  The King's Own
• --_Spectator WILLIAM BLACKWOOD & SONS, EDINBURGH AND LONDON Typographical errors corrected in text Page 195: Dewetsdrop replaced with Dewetsdorp Page 257: directy replaced with directly On page 321, the word battue is not a typographical error A battue is a hunt in which beaters force the game to flee in the direction of the hunter —  On the Heels of De Wet
• Some years ago the forests of Tavastland were infested with wolves, and during one fatal season a large number of cattle and even some children were devoured, but a battue organized by the peasantry cleared the brutes out of the country. —  Russia As Seen and Described by Famous Writers

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