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De - Pt| English Dictionary: sporting house | by the DICT Development Group |
| 2 results for sporting house | |
| From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
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| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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Sporting \Sport"ing\, a. Of pertaining to, or engaging in, sport or sporrts; exhibiting the character or conduct of one who, or that which, sports. {Sporting book}, a book containing a record of bets, gambling operations, and the like. --C. Kingsley. {Sporting house}, a house frequented by sportsmen, gamblers, and the like. {Sporting man}, one who practices field sports; also, a horse racer, a pugilist, a gambler, or the like. {Sporting plant} (Bot.), a plant in which a single bud or offset suddenly assumes a new, and sometimes very different, character from that of the rest of the plant. --Darwin. | |
