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Shooting   /ʃˈutɪŋ/   Listen
noun
Shooting  n.  
1.
The act of one who, or that which, shoots; as, the shooting of an archery club; the shooting of rays of light.
2.
A wounding or killing with a firearm; specifically (Sporting), the killing of game; as, a week of shooting.
3.
A sensation of darting pain; as, a shooting in one's head.


adjective
Shooting  adj.  Of or pertaining to shooting; for shooting; darting.
Shooting board (Joinery), a fixture used in planing or shooting the edge of a board, by means of which the plane is guided and the board held true.
Shooting box, a small house in the country for use in the shooting season.
Shooting gallery, a range, usually covered, with targets for practice with firearms.
Shooting iron, a firearm. (Slang, U.S.)
Shooting star.
(a)
(Astron.) A starlike, luminous meteor, that, appearing suddenly, darts quickly across some portion of the sky, and then as suddenly disappears, leaving sometimes, for a few seconds, a luminous train, called also falling star. Note: Shooting stars are small cosmical bodies which encounter the earth in its annual revolution, and which become visible by coming with planetary velocity into the upper regions of the atmosphere. At certain periods, as on the 13th of November and 10th of August, they appear for a few hours in great numbers, apparently diverging from some point in the heavens, such displays being known as meteoric showers, or star showers. These bodies, before encountering the earth, were moving in orbits closely allied to the orbits of comets. See Leonids, Perseids.
(b)
(Bot.) The American cowslip (Dodecatheon Meadia). See under Cowslip.
Shooting stick (Print.), a tapering piece of wood or iron, used by printers to drive up the quoins in the chase.





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"Shooting" Quotes from Famous Books



... never failed to obtain from her apples, pocket-money, and forgiveness for his numerous trespasses; and now in his early manhood he got privileges and immunities which were equally valuable. He was allowed a day or two's shooting in September; he schooled the squire's horses; got slips of trees out of the orchard and roots of flowers out of the garden; and had the fishing of the little river altogether in his own hands. He had undertaken ...
— Barchester Towers • Anthony Trollope
... beauty will be sav'd by merit. O heresy in fair, fit for these days! A giving hand, though foul, shall have fair praise. But come, the bow: now mercy goes to kill, And shooting well is then accounted ill. Thus will I save my credit in the shoot: Not wounding, pity would not let me do't; If wounding, then it was to show my skill, That more for praise than purpose meant to kill. And out of question so it is sometimes, Glory grows guilty of detested crimes, ...
— Love's Labour's Lost • William Shakespeare [Craig, Oxford edition]
... legislators will perceive the necessity of adopting a strict military organization of all the able-bodied men in the State, and providing them with weapons, with whose use they should be encouraged to make themselves familiar—apart from military drill and instruction—by the institution of public shooting-matches for prizes. The absolute necessity of stringent laws, in order to secure the attainment of anything worthy the name of military education and discipline, has been clearly proved by the experience of the drill-clubs which ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, Number 59, September, 1862 • Various
... such event these volunteers should already know how to shoot; for if a soldier has the fighting edge, and ability to take care of himself in the open, his efficiency on the line of battle is almost directly Proportionate to excellence in marksmanship. We should establish shooting galleries in all the large public and military schools, should maintain national target ranges in different parts of the country, and should in every way encourage the formation of rifle clubs throughout all parts of the land. The ...
— State of the Union Addresses of Theodore Roosevelt • Theodore Roosevelt
... Her doctor told her to go to Egypt, but she says Egypt's impossible, just now, and if she doesn't like our West she says she'll amble on to Arizona, or try California for the winter." He looked away, and smiled rather wanly. "She's counting on the big game shooting ...
— The Prairie Mother • Arthur Stringer


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