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- (uncountable, hunting) The game thus forced into the open.
- No qualifying quotations found; the OED Online lists only a dictionary entry.
- (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.
