Frequently with the. Open country regarded as a place over which hunting, hawking, riding to hounds, etc., takes place; (hence by metonymy) the…

Law. A woodland district, usually belonging to the king, set apart for hunting wild beasts and game, etc. (cf. quots. 1598 1628); having special…

An area marked out for a hunt. Obsolete.

A hunting-ground, a tract of unenclosed land reserved for breeding and hunting wild animals; unenclosed park-land.

the field or ground on which a hunt, esp. a fox-hunt, is going on; (also) the body of mounted huntsmen following the hounds.

A district or tract of country adapted for hunting, or in which hunting is practised.

= flying country n.

concrete. The district over which a pack of hounds hunts. Cf. chase, n.1 3.

A piece of unenclosed waste ground; (now usually, esp. in British usage) uncultivated ground covered with heather; a heath. Also: a tract of ground…

the Shires n. Fox-hunting. As the name of a hunting ‘country’: see quot. 1910.

an area of moorland used for shooting grouse by driving (drive, v. 3c), rather than by using dogs.

A tract over which a sportsman ranges in pursuit of game.

An area in which animals, esp. seals, are hunted and killed. Frequently in plural.

one that affords opportunity for long unbroken runs.

Usually in plural = killing ground, n. 1.