Citations:battue

English citations of battue

1. (uncountable, hunting) The game thus forced into the open.

   No qualifying quotations found; the OED Online lists only a dictionary entry.

2. (countable, hunting) A hunt performed in this manner.
   • 1846, Richard Griffiths Welford, “General Object and Character of the Game Laws, and the Present System of Preserving Game”, in The Influences of the Game Laws; […], London: R. Groomsbridge and Sons, […]; J. Gadsby, […], →OCLC, paragraphs 15078, 15081 and 15083, page 73:

     In the collection of game for a battue, are the Committee to understand that game is driven into the covers from the various parts of the manor? No; it is reared and bred in the covers, generally, I believe. […] You object to a battue where 800 or 900 head of game are killed? Yes. […] I should prefer the battue system being done away entirely.