battue

noun2

1. •
   [before a noun] A form of hunting in which game is forced into the open by the beating of sticks on bushes, etc.
2. •
   A hunt performed in this manner.

   • What, in your comprehension, is a battue?—As far as I understand a battue, it is where the woods are beaten; where the game is beaten out by men instead of dogs. — 1845