A target, butt, or other object set up to be aimed at with a missile or projectile. Hence also: a person or animal targeted by an archer…

An object aimed at; a mark, a target.

Archery. A mark or target, typically white in colour and placed on the butt. Now archaic and rare.

Scottish. A raised butt or target for shooting at; (hence) an act of throwing or shooting at a target. Obsolete.

That which is aimed at; a mark. Obsolete.

A mark for shooting or aiming at. Chiefly in figurative context, and tending to coincide with sense 2 or 3a. Obsolete.

†(a) a mark to aim or shoot at; (b) a mark made by a shot.

A shield-like structure, marked with concentric circles, set up to be aimed at in shooting practice; hence, any object used for the purpose, and trans…