Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A law enacted for the preservation of the animals called
game , by restricting the seasons and the manner in which they may be taken: generally in the plural.
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Examples
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That includes, of course, all those words and numbers on shell boxes and in game-law compendiums.
Winchester Sport Glasses: De-Dorking the Middle-Age Gunner 2007
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He had wounded it first, and the established native game-law is that the animal belongs to the man who first draws blood; the two legs on one side, by the same law, belonged to us for killing it.
A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and Its Tributaries 2004
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Patrols area to prevent game-law violations, investigates reports of damage to crops and property by wildlife, and compiles biological data.
Discover What You’re Best At Linda Gale 1998
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On the contrary I wish them all a happy new year to abuse one another, or visit each of them his nearest neighbour whom he hates, three times a week, because 'the distance is so convenient,' and give great dinners in noble rivalship (venison from the Lord Lieutenant against turbot from London!), and talk popularity and game-law by turns to the tenantry, and beat down tithes to the rector.
The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett Browning, Robert, 1812-1889 1898
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They got a "gang," or, as they called it, a "trot-line," to lay down in the river for catfish, perch, and shovel-nose sturgeon, for there was no game-law then.
The Hoosier School-boy Edward Eggleston 1869
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For in July, while the game-law was on, and the young quails were coming on, we were awakened one morning by firing, -- musketry-firing, close at hand.
The Complete Project Gutenberg Writings of Charles Dudley Warner Charles Dudley Warner 1864
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For in July, while the game-law was on, and the young quails were coming on, we were awakened one morning by firing, -- musketry-firing, close at hand.
My Summer in a Garden Charles Dudley Warner 1864
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'Take care I don't come on you with Mary's lessons to Colonel Bury on the game-law.'
The Young Step-Mother Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862
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_ -- On the contrary I wish them all a happy new year to abuse one another, or visit each of them his nearest neighbour whom he hates, three times a week, because 'the distance is so convenient,' and give great dinners in noble rivalship (venison from the Lord Lieutenant against turbot from London!), and talk popularity and game-law by turns to the tenantry, and beat down tithes to the rector.
The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett, Vol. 1 (of 2) 1845-1846 Robert Browning 1850
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It is high time, it seems to me, that a moral game-law were passed for the preservation of the wild and vagrant feelings of human nature.
Dreamthorp A Book of Essays Written in the Country Alexander Smith 1848
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