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▪ I. † skeet, adv. and a. Obs.
Forms: 3–5 sket (4 schet, skette, 4–5 skit), 4–5 skete (4 schete, sckete), skeet (5 skeete).
[a. ON. skjótt (Icel. skjótt, Norw. skjott; MSw. skót, skyt, skit) quickly, neut. of skjótr (Icel. skjótur, Norw. skjot; MSw. skioter, skiuter) swift, quick, related to ON. skjóta, = OE. scéotan to shoot. The corresponding OE. adj. scéot occurs once, with the variant ᵹescéot.]
A. adv.
1. Quickly, hastily, immediately.
Very common in metrical texts c 1300–1400.
c1200Ormin 1266 Ȝiff þu..ȝeornesst tatt tu mote sket Uppcumenn inntill heoffne. a1300Havelok 1960 Mi dore he broken up ful sket, And wolde me binden hond and fet. 13..Coer de L. 5488 (W.), The ryche Sawdon, al so skete, A noble clerk he sente for thenne. 13..E.E. Allit. P. C. 195 Þenne ascryed þay hym sckete, & asked ful loude [etc.]. c1400St. Alexius (Laud 622) 493 Þe sergeauntz stirten out skeet, Þai founden hym, & kisten his feet. c1460Towneley Myst. vii. 221 Thay were dampned, sone and skete, Vnto the pyne of hell.
2. Readily, easily. rare.
c1200Ormin 2900 Forr mann maȝȝ sket to soffte ben Ȝæn þa þatt Drihhtin wraþþenn. Ibid. 4716.
B. adj. Swift, active.
c1400Destr. Troy 13434 This Askathes, the skathill, had sket sones thre. Ibid. 13672 Ascatus þe skete, for skath of his sones, Miche water he weppit.
Hence † ˈskeetly adv. Obs.—1
a1400–50Alexander 5040 Þen bownes agayn þe bald kyng, baldly he wepis, Þat he so skitly suld skifte.
▪ II. skeet, n.1|skiːt|
Also 5 skete, 9 skeat.
[Of obscure origin.]
A long-handled scoop or shovel; in later use Naut. (see quots. 1769, 1846). Also fig.
c1440Jacob's Well 168 A skete is opyn a-forn, redy to deluyn in-to þe nesch wose, & redy to delyuere it out. A skete also sumdel, in þe heuyd, is raysed & reryd on bothe sydes... Also a skete hath a long handle. Ibid. 178 Lo, how þis skeet of perfyȝt sorwe sauyd þe chanoun fro wordly schame. 1662Ir. Stat. at Large (1765) II. 465 Skeets for whitsters, the skeet 1s. 1719De Foe Crusoe ii. (Globe) 476 That the Men in the Boats might be ready with Skeets and Buckets to put out any Fire these Savages might endeavour to fix to the Outside of the Ship. 1750T. R. Blanckley Naval Expos. 152 Skeets are for weting Yachts Sails, or the Ship's Sides. 1769Falconer Dict. Marine (1780), Skeet, a..long scoop..used to wet the decks and sides of a ship in hot weather... This instrument..is also employed in small vessels to wet the sails, to render them more..efficacious in light breezes. 1846A. Young Naut. Dict. 284 Skeet, a piece of wood or iron with a groove in it, used for throwing water over the planks of a ship's sides. 1885A. Brassey The Trades 13 A man stood on the gunwale throwing water into the sail with a long-handled metal ‘skeet’.
Hence skeet v.1 trans., to throw (water) over sails, etc., with a skeet; to wet (sails) in this way; ˈskeeting vbl. n.1
1885A. Brassey The Trades 17 The men on board still ‘skeeting’ the water on to the sails. 1890Outing XXIV. 470/2 Our British-made sails were..kept decently flat only by drenching the luffs with water, a process called ‘skeating’.
▪ III. skeet, n.2 orig. U.S.|skiːt|
[Proposed for the name of the sport (see quot. 1926) as an ‘old’ form of shoot v.]
A form of clay-pigeon shooting in which targets are projected at a variety of shooting angles in a semicircular range. Also, in some attrib. uses (see below), a clay pigeon; so to shoot skeet.
1926National Sportsman (U.S.) May 18 (heading) Skeet, the new sport. Ibid., Since the prize of $100 was offered for the most suitable name for the new shooting sport.., nearly 10,000 suggestions have been received... After careful consideration, the name that seemed to apply itself the best was ‘skeet’, a very old form of our present word ‘shoot’... Mrs. Gertrude Hurlbutt, Dayton, Montana, sent in the suggestion. 1931Daily Progress (Charlottesville, Va.) 26 Oct. 3/2 Skeets [sic] is unlike regular trap-shooting in that the birds come from oppositely located houses and that, in one position two birds come at once. 1931L. B. Smith (title) Better trapshooting. With a section on skeet. 1939Country Life 11 Feb. p. xxi/3 (Advt.), Clay bird shooting.—Practice and Coaching; every flight imitated; skeet; automatic traps. 1955R. Churchill Game Shooting iii. i. 173 In 1927, I myself introduced the game of skeet to England. 1976Webster's Sports Dict. 395/1 A round of skeet consists of 25 shots. 1979R. Jaffe Class Reunion ii. ii. 139 He liked to dance, play golf, drink, shoot skeet, and laugh.
b. attrib. and Comb., as skeet championship, skeet contest, skeet ground, skeet gun, skeet match, skeet range, skeet shoot, skeet shooter, skeet shooting.
1942Tee Emm (Air Ministry) II. 75 He has won the *Skeet championship several times. 1975Oxf. Compan. Sports & Games 927/1 The first U.S. national skeet championships were held in 1935.
1952Times 14 July 5/5 Colonel C. T. Edwinson..won the *skeet (clay pigeon) contest in the world shooting championships here yesterday.
1926National Sportsman (U.S.) Sept. 22 (heading) News from the *skeet grounds. 1975Oxf. Compan. Sports & Games 925/2 On a skeet ground layout there are two spring-release traps.
1976Shooting Times & Country Mag. 9–15 Dec. 5/1 (Advt.), David Price..can testify to the suitability of his Miroku 800SW *Skeet gun for game shooting.
1970Cape Times 28 Oct. 24/4 Evgeny Petrov, of Russia, set an unofficial world record here, breaking 200 straight targets in the International *skeet match of the world shooting championships here.
1942Tee Emm (Air Ministry) II. 75 We had an article on Training with Clay Targets and the *Skeet Range in our April, 1942, issue. 1970G. Jackson Let. 21 May in Soledad Brother (1971) 255 Quietly..I would have my fronts open as many skeet, trap, rifle, and pistol ranges as I could rent space for in and around the black community.
1926National Sportsman (U.S.) June 18 A group of about twenty good sportsmen in the town of Maynard, Mass. held their first *skeet shoot. 1959Times 1 Aug. 9/5 In addition to tests which simulate the different types of game-shooting, ‘skeet’ and ‘down the line’ shoots are held.
1926National Sportsman (U.S.) June 18 If the *skeet shooter were in hot competition..he would probably choose small shot. 1967Boston Sunday Herald 26 Mar. vi. 6/5 A rifle range for the skeet shooter.
1926National Sportsman (U.S.) May 19/2 (Advt.), The Western Practice Trap is ideal for ‘*Skeet’ shooting, or for any kind of shotgun practice. 1971Courier-Mail (Brisbane) 11 June 7/3 Winner..was Graham Bailey,..who took the final of the Winchester Australia skeet shooting championship at the Belmont range.
Hence ˈskeeting vbl. n.2, participating in the sport of skeet, skeet shooting.
1926National Sportsman (U.S.) May 18/2 It is as easy to say skeet, skeeting, skeeter as it is to say shoot, shooting, shooter. Ibid. Sept. 22/3 The game of skeeting is just like a ball game. Ibid., Hunt's Club and skeeting field is a public place. 1968Daily Mail 23 Oct. 16/7 Skeeting is a precise form of shooting which is in the Olympic Games for the first time.
▪ IV. skeet, v.1
see skeet n.1
▪ V. skeet, v.2 dial.|skiːt|
[Alteration of (esp. U.S.) scoot v. or (esp. Sc.) skite v.2 or skate v.]
1. intr. To move swiftly; to hurry; to run. Usu. with advbs.
1838J. C. Neal Charcoal Sk. 97 You must skeete, even if you have to cut high-dutchers with your irons loose. a1855J. F. Kelly Humors of Falconbridge (1856) 251, I skeeted down them steps into the Common to let off my corked up risibilities. 1861in L. C. Baker Hist. U.S. Secret Service (1867) v. 101 Burn the letter..and then get in your hole and skeet for Dixie. 1877G. Stewart Fire-side Tales 89 Skeet howe hame, guid folk! 1922Joyce Ulysses 748 That icy wind skeeting across from those mountains. 1924C. Greer-Petrie Angeline of Hill Country 18 Here comes a mighty impudent lookin' darky a-skeetin' towards us. 1929L. Robinson in Lett. Sean O'Casey (1975) I. 358 Johnny Perrin..got married yesterday and skeeted off to Wales for a few days.
2. trans. To squirt, to eject (fluid). Also absol.
1880Courtney & Couch Gloss. Words in Use in Cornwall 51/2 Skeet, v., to eject saliva through the teeth. 1886J. J. H. Burgess Shetland Sk. & Poems 114 Every platch 'at he med skeetit it up and doon ower every ane 'at cam' near. 1908Dialect Notes III. 370 Skeet, v. tr., to scoot (water), spew out of the mouth, especially between the teeth. 1912J. Nicolson Hame-Spun 45, I was skeetit frae head ta foot, sae 'at I'm not onlookin'. 1935Z. N. Hurston Mules & Men i. iii. 64 Julius spat out into the yard, trying to give the impression that he was skeeting tobacco juice like a man. 1946C. McCullers Member of Wedding i. 48 She loved to..lightly meddle with their things—with Mrs Marlowe's atomizer which skeeted perfume, the grey-pink powder puff, [etc.]. |