rough-shootingn.
/ˈrʌfˌʃuːtɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈrəfˌʃudɪŋ/ British. Shooting.
1. The action, an act, or the sport of shooting game without organized driving by beaters.
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night shooting1850
rough-shooting1850
point shooting1857
cover-shooting1864
snap-shooting1872
rough shoot1889
1850 Times 6 Aug. 11/1 (advt.) About 100 brace of pheasants may be killed. There is..very good rough shooting throughout the season.
1878 L. Clements Shooting & Fishing Trips (ed. 2) xxviii. 239 To me a day's rough shooting has..more attraction than a day systematically devoted to the stubbles or to the moor.
1934 F. Ellis Summers of Yesterday ii. 78 It was a wild bit we had taken, sea-trout fishing, brown trout, and rough shooting, that was all.
1972 ‘M. Innes’ Open House v. 42 Manage you a bit of rough shooting, too. Brought your gun?
2005 T. Collins in T. Collins et al. Encycl. Trad. Brit. Rural Sports 231/2 Rough shooting is usually perceived to be the polar opposite of organised driven game shooting as it is undertaken on a much more informal basis.
2. An area in which one has a right to shoot in this manner; = rough shoot n. 1. Cf. walk-up n. 3.
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the world > food and drink > hunting > shooting > [noun] > shooting area
shooting-ground1835
shoot1861
rough shoot1883
rough-shooting1899
1899 ‘Old Calabar’ Sporting Adventures Charles Carrington 293 I hired, some two years ago, some capital rough shooting in North Wales at less than threepence an acre.
1904 W. Stanhope-Lovell O'er Crag & Torrent 129 An old friend..has a large extent of rough shooting on the fringe of Dartmoor.
1943 G. Greene Ministry of Fear ii. i. 122 The Home..had its own hens and pigs and a good many acres of rough shooting.
2007 D. FitzGerald Many Parts iii. 37 Gerald..was a moderately affluent Essex landowner with some rough shooting.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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