English Dictionary

battue

IPA（発音記号）

/bəˈt(j)uː/

名詞

限定用法 頻度副詞 不可算名詞 可算名詞

(uncountable, hunting, often attributively) A form of hunting in which game is forced into the open by the beating of sticks on bushes, etc. / (countable, hunting) A hunt performed in this manner.

日本語の意味

（不可算・狩猟）棒で茂みなどを叩いて、獲物を野外に追い出す狩猟法 / （可算・狩猟）そのような手法で実施される狩り

The local battue brought hunters, dogs, and beaters into the hedgerows at dawn to flush out pheasants.

地元の追い込み猟では、キジを追い出すために猟師や猟犬、藪を棒で叩く人たちが夜明けに生け垣に入った。

意味（1）

(uncountable, hunting, often attributively) A form of hunting in which game is forced into the open by the beating of sticks on bushes, etc.

https://books.google.com/books?id=GoQCAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA203 page 203 In battue, whenever a hen rises, the signal ware hen! is called out by the sportsman or beater who is nearest it: meaning thereby beware of the hen; or, literally, do not shoot the hen pheasant. In most places where game is very strictly preserved, and the rules of sporting firmly adhered to, a fine is imposed on any one who kills a hen pheasant in battue. […] https://books.google.com/books?id=GoQCAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA204 page 204 No dogs need be used in battue, but beaters only: and it should be remembered that pheasants always run to the end or side of the cover before taking flight, unless they are much pressed: consequently the best sport always comes at the extreme end of the wood.

意味（2）

(countable, hunting) A hunt performed in this manner.

The battues have nothing whatever to do with the poaching, and once sufficiently grand battue would put an end to poaching altogether, by destroying all the game. The evil of which the chancellor should have spoken, is the excessive game preserving which allows of battues, or great massacres. The game is preserved till it swarms, and then it is slaughtered in swarms; but it is clearly not the massacre which provokes the poaching, but the temptation of the extraordinary abundance of game.

battues （ plural ）