shootingn.
/ˈʃuːtɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈʃudɪŋ/ The action of shoot v.
1. † b. Discharge (of a bow), firing (of a gun).
a. The action or practice of discharging missiles from a bow or gun.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > action of propelling missile > [noun] > discharging of missile weapon
shooting?c1225
shotec1330
shot1377
delivery1588
discharge1591
c1000 Ælfric Lives Saints xxxii. 180 Þa wunda þe þa wælhreowan hæþenan mid gelomum scotungum on his lice macodon.]
?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 50 Alswa ase men worreð mid þreo cunes wepnes. wið scheotung & wið speres ord & wið sweordes echȝe [etc.].
a1352 L. Minot Poems (1914) v. 49 It semid with þaire schoting als it war snaw.
a1450 (c1410) H. Lovelich Merlin (1913) II. l. 11564 These kynges hadden beholden ful wel The schetyng of this cherl every del.
1549 H. Latimer 2nd Serm. before Kynges Maiestie 6th Serm. sig. Tiiiiv The arte of shutynge hath ben in tymes past much estemed in this realme.
1572 in W. H. Stevenson Rec. Borough Nottingham (1889) IV. 141 Matches of showttyng.
1603 R. Johnson tr. G. Botero Hist. Descr. Worlde 89 Shoting in peeces, crosbowes, longbowes &c.
1692 N. Luttrell Diary in Brief Hist. Relation State Affairs (1857) II. 526 Much shooting with cannon and musquet was heard.
1727 P. Longueville Hermit 198 He daily exercises Shooting at a Mark.
1880 Maitland Gunmaking in Encycl. Brit. XI. 294/1 When this [windage] is considerable, it is a principal cause of error in shooting.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > action of propelling missile > [noun] > discharging of missile weapon > instance of
shotc1000
strokec1400
shooting1426
shoota1535
1426 J. Lydgate tr. G. de Guileville Pilgrimage Life Man 12071 Yiff I koude wysly provyde..Fro shetyng off croos bowes.
1559 D. Lindsay Test. Papyngo l. 439 in Wks. (1931) I Throuch reakles schuttyng of one gret cannoun.
1625 in W. Chambers Charters Burgh Peebles (1872) 414 Gewine to John Frank for schiwting of the tua goineis in the steippell.
1637–50 J. Row Hist. Kirk Scotl. (Wodrow Soc.) 363 Shooting of canons.
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(a) The sport of killing game with the gun.
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the world > food and drink > hunting > shooting > [noun]
gunninga1625
shooting1642
gunnery1816
1642 T. Fuller Holy State iii. xiii. 185 Shooting..provides food when men are hungry.
1740 T. Gray Let. 2 Apr. in Corr. (1971) I. 146 The two boys..go a-shooting almost every day.
1823 S. Smith Game Laws in Wks. (1859) II. 28/2 There are certainly many valuable men brought into the country by a love of shooting.
1823 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto XIII xlviii. 79 But there's no shooting (save grouse) till September.
1833 T. Hook Parson's Daughter II. ii. 49 The Squire was invited to a day's shooting at Colonel Bradfield's.
1903 ‘A. McNeill’ Egregious Eng. (ed. 3) xix. 174 Grouse-shooting, pheasant-shooting, pigeon-shooting, and even rabbit-shooting.
1908 R. Bagot Anthony Cuthbert i. 3 Every November the coverts at Cuthbertsheugh afforded four days' shooting.
(b) shooting flying n. used as noun of action to the verbal phrase to shoot flying (shoot v. 28d). ? Obsolete.
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the world > food and drink > hunting > shooting > [noun] > shooting at flying birds
shooting flying1727
flight-shooting1840
wing-shot1875
wing-shooting1881
flighting1882
flight-shot1887
stopping1902
1727 Markland (title) Pteryplegia: or, the Art of Shooting Flying.
1766 Page (title) The Art of Shooting Flying.
1814 W. Dobson Kunopædia (title page) With Instructions for attaining the Art of Shooting Flying.
d. An exclusive right to shoot game on a particular estate or tract of country. Hence also, a tract of country on which a person has such an exclusive right. Often collective plural.
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the world > food and drink > hunting > shooting > [noun] > shooting rights
deputation1749
shooting1848
shoot1861
stern shot1863
shoulder-shot1900
society > law > legal right > rights to do or use something > [noun] > hunting or fishing rights
several fishery1426
piscary1475
(free) warren1485
fishing1495
chasea1500
fugationc1503
piscage1610
fishery1703
shooting1848
shoot1861
rod1898
fishing rights1936
1848 A. H. Clough Bothie of Toper-na-Fuosich i. 68 Hither from lodge and bothie in all the adjoining shootings.
1854 Act 17 & 18 Victoria c. 91 §42 The expression ‘lands and heritages’ shall..include..shootings, and deer forests, where such shootings or deer forests are actually let.
1879 Daily News 12 Aug. 5/1 The southern shootings are reported to be very poorly stocked with birds.
1884 Pall Mall Gaz. 12 Aug. 4/1 The man who takes a shooting with the intent of enjoying sport upon it until he is snowed off the premises.
1896 Ld. Selborne Mem. I. xv. 236 He rented, for two or three years, the shooting of Mixbury.
e. An incident in which a person is shot with a firearm.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > action of propelling missile > discharge of firearms > [noun] > shooting incident
shooting1873
1873 ‘M. Twain’ & C. D. Warner Gilded Age xlvi. 425 What some of the journals lacked in suitable length..they made up in encyclopaedic information about other similar murders and shootings.
1977 Whitaker's Almanack 590/2 During the election campaign 50 people were reported killed in shootings and bombings.
f. Oil Industry. Detonation of an explosive charge in a well to increase the flow of oil or gas. Cf. shoot v. 34.
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society > occupation and work > industry > drilling for oil or gas > [noun] > other procedures
jar1865
run1880
round trip1900
shooting1914
swabbing1921
underreaming1922
acidization1934
squeeze cementing1938
mud logging1960
re-entry1961
stab1972
upending1976
1914 F. A. Talbot Oil Conquest of World v. 64 ‘Shooting’ is undertaken only when the limestone or sandstone is of such a nature that it restricts the flow of oil.
1937 Amer. Speech 12 154/1 Shooting a well, using nitro~glycerine to make oil flow.
1946 Nature 20 July 84/1 The oil industry uses large quantities of nitroglycerine explosives..in the so-called oil-well ‘shooting’, where the explosives are employed to shatter the underground formation and thus open up fissures through which the oil may flow freely to the well.
1969 Times 2 May 25/1 The international oil companies are stepping up their interest in the Irish Sea in search for oil and gas... The area involved covers at least 15,000 miles and although the ‘shooting’ will be selective, the cost will..be..high.
2. The feeling of a sudden pain; a thrill or dart of pain.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > pain > types of pain > [noun] > sudden pain
stitchc1000
showera1300
shutea1300
gridea1400
gripa1400
shota1400
stounda1400
lancing1470
pang1482
twitch?1510
shooting1528
storm1540
stitching1561
stub1587
twinge1608
gird1614
twang1721
tang1724
shoot1756
darting1758
writhe1789
catch1830
lightning pain1860
twitcher1877
rash1900
1528 T. Paynell tr. Arnaldus de Villa Nova in Joannes de Mediolano Regimen Sanitatis Salerni sig. E j Mylke..doth mitigate the shotynge or prickynge of the longes.
1635 W. Habington Castara (ed. 2) ii. 162 The shootings of a wounded conscience.
c1702 in Publ. Catholic Rec. Soc. (1911) 9 375 It seemed to her she felt..most violent shewtings in her back.
1710 True Acct. Last Distemper T. Whigg (ed. 2) i. 12 The shooting of my Corn.
1739 J. Sparrow tr. H. F. Le Dran Observ. Surg. xl. 151 He felt frequent Throbbings or Shootings in the Tumour.
1818 Art of preserving Feet 27 Some, on the approach of rain, experience what is called a shooting of the corns.
1825 W. Scott Betrothed xiv, in Tales Crusaders II. 294 I was but grieved with the shooting of an old wound.
3.
a. Sprouting, beginning to grow (of plants, also of the teeth, etc.); sudden or rapid growth. Also shooting up.
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the world > life > biology > biological processes > development, growth, or degeneration > [noun] > growth
waxa1300
growing1390
upgrowing1430
grow1536
shooting1579
growth1587
1579 W. Wilkinson Confut. Familye of Loue Ep. Ded. sig. *ijv To shew that shootyngs vp and encrease of God's Church beyng but from a feeble and weake begynnyng [etc.].
1615 H. Crooke Μικροκοσμογραϕια 344 The shooting of Stagges hornes which euery yeare fall and grow againe.
1765 Museum Rusticum 4 227 Hot manures..will bring on a speedy shooting.
1789 M. Underwood Treat. Dis. Children (rev. ed.) II. 89 The shooting up of a soft fungus.
1801 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 5 569 That is what they call the shooting of the teeth.
1901 ‘Zack’ Tales Dunstable Weir 23 What wi' the shooting o' the crops, and birds calling one to t'other, there was a wonderful lot of nature about.
b. concrete. A shoot or collection of shoots.
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the world > plants > part of plant > shoot, sprout, or branch > [noun] > shoots
launchc1430
shooting1608
sproutage1860
1608 H. Plat Floraes Paradise Beautified 57 You must pare off the shooting at the vpper end of the roote, and then lay them in sand.
1790 A. Wilson Poems 106 Beneath an old hedging, for shelter he crawl'd, And clung by a shooting of birch.
1886 W. J. Tucker Life E. Europe 100 A wild undergrowth of rank weeds and acacia-shootings.
4. The sending out of shoots or spicules in crystallization.
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1665 R. Hooke Micrographia 92 The shootings of Ice on the top of Water.
a1728 J. Woodward Attempt Nat. Hist. Fossils Eng. (1729) i. 114 Of the Stellar Shootings upon the Surface of the Regulus of Antimony.
1788 C. Blagden in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 78 134 The shooting of the ice.
1855 C. Kingsley Glaucus 32 The shooting of salts intermixed with mineral particles.
5. Football. The kicking of the ball at a goal. Also in extended use in other sports, as Basketball, Netball, Hockey, etc.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > characteristics of team ball games > [noun] > actions or manoeuvres
ball1483
through-pass1673
intercept1821
fielding1823
outfielding1851
wrist stroke1851
goalkeeping1856
shot1868
scrimmage1872
passing1882
save1883
touchback1884
angle shot1885
shooting1885
pass1887
line1891
tackling1893
feeding1897
centre1898
chip shot1899
glovework1906
back-lift1912
push pass1919
aerial1921
screen1921
ball-hawking1925
fast break1929
tackle1930
chip1939
screenshot1940
snapshot1961
hang time1969
one-two1969
blooter1976
passback1976
sidefoot1979
1885 Field 31 Jan. 135/2 Any shooting that the centres attempted was very defective.
1897 Earl of Suffolk et al. Encycl. Sport I. 518/2 The goalkeeper should run forward..so as to attempt to tackle him [sc. the hockey player] before he can get within shooting range.
1901 Daily Express 18 Mar. 8/1 The football was..except for poor shooting most enjoyable.
1935 Encycl. Sports, Games & Pastimes 436/1 It [sc. the game of netball] proceeds when..the ball..is received by one standing within the shooting circle.
1961 Netball (‘Know the Game’ Series) (ed. 5) 20 (heading) Footwork for throwing and shooting.
1974 Plain Dealer (Cleveland, Ohio) 26 Oct. 4- d/1 This system paid off in the team's shooting this week.
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a. In various senses of the verb.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > manufacture of textile fabric > [noun] > weaving > moving or driving of shuttle
shooting1464
picking1803
shuttling1874
the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > type or method of fishing > [noun] > fishing with net > cast of net
throw1548
shooting1603
cast1616
shot1859
society > travel > travel by water > [noun] > passing under a bridge
shooting1609
the world > the universe > constellation > comet or meteor > meteor > [noun] > movement
shooting1609
the world > space > place > absence > fact of being unoccupied > [noun] > emptiness > emptying > of sacks
shooting1821
the world > movement > rate of motion > swiftness > swift movement in specific manner > [noun] > sudden
darting1565
shooting1846
society > occupation and work > industry > working with specific materials > working with metal > [noun] > welding
shutting1490
welding1603
welling1660
burning1688
shutting up1852
shutting together1883
shooting1892
1464 in W. H. Stevenson Rec. Borough Nottingham (1883) II. 374 For shotyng of the same spyndelle.
1603 Reg. Mag. Sig. Scot. 530/1 Cum..privilegio lie haling, schutting, landing, peilling, drawing of nettis, [etc.].
1609 P. Holland tr. Ammianus Marcellinus Rom. Hist. a 1 b The shooting of London bridge at an ebbe or low water.
1609 P. Holland tr. Ammianus Marcellinus Rom. Hist. 166 The shooting of starres.
1694 tr. F. Martens Voy. Spitzbergen 120 in Narbrough's Acct. Several Late Voy. Some are propagated by the shooting of their Row.
1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 7. ¶2 I have known the shooting of a Star spoil a Night's Rest.
1821 Acct. Peculations Coal Trade 17 Wall's-end coals, 47s…free of expence, except the trifling expence for metage and shooting.
1825 ‘J. Nicholson’ Operative Mechanic 586 The operation of making the edge of a board straight is called shooting.
1846 C. Dickens Pictures from Italy 173 Now and then, a swift shooting across some doorway or balcony, of a straggling stranger in a fancy dress.
1888 Encycl. Brit. XXIV. 464/1 The ‘picking’ or shooting of the weft.
1892 Labour Comm. Gloss. Shooting, the operation of emptying the sacks of coal into the consumer's cellars or stores.
1892 Labour Comm. Gloss. Shooting, the process by which the iron which is to form the ‘bolster’ and ‘tang’ in a genuine hand-forged table blade is welded to the steel of the blade.
b. The action or process of taking film with a cinematographic camera.
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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > cinematography > filming > [noun]
camerawork1858
chronophotography1895
filming1909
motion photography1912
picturizing1916
shooting1920
take1920
shoot1929
lensing1942
1920 I. P. Gore in Stage Year Book 56 Many companies are paying trips to the Continent for the ‘shooting’ of certain scenes in the actual ‘locations’.
1941 B. Schulberg What makes Sammy Run? xi. 284 A director exhausted from the day's shooting.
1955 Times 31 May 10/3 Mr. Orson Welles, for one, has shown..the methods of ‘shooting’ which lay emphasis on rehearsals.
1979 Beautiful Brit. Columbia Spring 4 Victoria was one of the shooting locations for Harry in Your Pocket.
c. The action or process of injecting an (addictive) drug intravenously. slang (originally U.S.).
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the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > [noun] > by injection
needle1903
jabbing1926
main line1931
mainlining1951
shooting1951
skin-popping1951
skin-pop1952
popping1957
skinning1973
1951 Evening Sun (Baltimore) 27 Mar. 4/1 A powerful combination of ‘bernice snorting’ and heroin ‘shooting’ was called ‘blowing speed balls’.
1953 W. S. Burroughs Junkie 8 You don't wake up one morning and decide to be a drug addict. It takes at least three months' shooting twice a day to get any habit at all.
1971 Black Scholar Apr. 46 Mugging, theft, pimping and shooting dope are not themselves political actions.
7. shooting forth:† b. concrete a projection, prominence. Obsolete.
a. an outburst.
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the world > action or operation > manner of action > violent action or operation > [noun] > bursting violently from rest or restraint > instance of
outbreakinga1387
breaking-out1552
outbreak1562
eruption1598
storm1602
out-breach1609
fulmination1623
outflying1641
outburst1657
float1763
overboiling1767
irruption1811
gush1821
outflash1831
outflush1834
shooting forth1837
outbursting1838
blow-off1842
outblaze1843
upburst1843
upthrow1855
upbreak1856
spurt1859
outlash1868
spitfire1886
Brock's benefit1948
1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. I. vii. i. 335 The first grand fit and shooting forth of Sansculottism.
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the world > space > shape > unevenness > projection or prominence > [noun] > a projecting part
hornc1275
outshooting1310
nosec1400
startc1400
spout1412
snouta1425
outbearingc1425
outstanding?c1425
relish1428
jeta1500
rising1525
shoulder1545
jutting1565
outshootc1565
prominence1578
forecast1580
projection1592
sprout1598
eye1600
shooting forth1601
lip1608
juttying1611
prominent?1611
eminence1615
butting1625
excursiona1626
elbow1626
protrusion1646
jettinga1652
outjetting1652
prominency1654
eminency1668
nouch1688
issuanta1690
out-butting1730
outjet1730
out-jutting1730
flange1735
nosing1773
process1775
jut1787
projecture1803
nozzle1804
saliency1831
ajutment1834
salience1837
out-thrust1842
emphasis1885
cleat1887
outjut1893
pseudopodiuma1902
1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. i. xxii. 88 The shooting forth of the Promontorie aforesaid some have reported to be 60 miles, others 90.
1722 J. Quincy Lexicon Physico-medicum (ed. 2) 16 Ancon, is the top of the Elbow, or the backward and greater Shooting-forth of the Ulna.
Compounds
General attributive. C1. Simple attributive.
a.
shooting-party n. In sense 1c.
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1776 Earl of Carlisle in J. H. Jesse G. Selwyn & his Contemp. (1844) III. 154 I was only absent two days from home on a shooting-party.
1848 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair lxii. 566 There were shooting-parties and battues.
shooting-season n.
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1781 G. Selwyn Let. 19 May in 15th Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. Manuscripts (c. 8551) LI. 1 Boothby proposes to go to you in the shooting season, that is near Christmas.
1818 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian xi, in Tales of my Landlord 2nd Ser. IV. 227 To spend the shooting-season in Scotland.
1981 C. Miller Childhood in Scotl. 54 The opening of the shooting seasons varied with the type of game.
b.
shooting-place n. In sense 1d.
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1819 W. Scott Let. 3 Oct. (1933) V. 506 He really thought of getting some shooting-place in Scotland.
shooting-tenant n.
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1891 Daily News 9 Apr. 2/2 That objectionable person, the shooting tenant.
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shooting-boot n. (Also (figurative) in sense 5.)
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1855 ‘C. Idle’ Hints Shooting & Fishing 34 To return from this digression on shooting boots.
1894 Country Gentleman's Catal. 154 Fagg Brothers,..makers of shooting boots to H. R. H. The Duke of Saxe-Coburg.
1947 Sporting Mirror 7 Nov. 11/3 Grimsby were having a sad and sorry season until the unexpected revival at Manchester United when Cairns found his shooting boots.
1948 C. Day Lewis Otterbury Incident 26 Everyone knows he's a deadly shot when his shooting-boots are on.
1978 Cornish Guardian 27 Apr. 5/5 Tintagel found their shooting boots in the second half of their game.
shooting schedule n. In sense 6b.
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1950 ‘E. Crispin’ Frequent Hearses i. 36 ‘It would be possible for me to meet her?’.. ‘That depends on the shooting schedules. The film's on the floor.’
1976 M. Maguire Scratchproof i. 11 Shooting schedules were being delayed and people were beginning to say the film was jinxed.
shooting script n.
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1929 I. Montagu tr. V. I. Pudovkin On Film Technique vi. 176 The Shooting-script is the scenario in its final cinematographic form.
1933 A. Brunel Filmcraft 141 Here follow two sequences of the actual shooting script of ‘A Light Woman’.
1976 H. Orel in M. Drabble Genius of T. Hardy 103 Perhaps John Wain exaggerates by describing the entire work [sc. The Dynasts] as a shooting script.
d. Designating clothing worn or equipment used by a person engaged in shooting.
shooting-canoe n.
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1842 Lacy Mod. Shooter 443 Going afloat in a shooting-canoe for the first time.
shooting-coat n.
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1840 John Bull 3 Oct. 469/2 (advt.) A superb Collection of Shooting Coats.
1884 J. Hatton in Harper's Mag. Feb. 337/1 An old velvet shooting coat.
shooting dress n.
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1794 J. Woodforde Diary 27 Oct. (1929) IV. 149 I met Mr. Stoughton..in a Shooting Dress.
1852 J. R. Planché Day of Reckoning iii. i. 30 Claude..in a shooting dress, is seated on the steps of the terrace, examining the lock of his gun.
shooting-gear n.
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1555 in J. Raine Wills & Inventories Archdeaconry Richmond (1853) 106 I beqweth unto John Cawrew..all my husband's shotyng gere.
shooting-horse n.
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1850 R. G. Cumming Five Years Hunter's Life S. Afr. (1902) 14 These drove their shooting-horses loose behind the waggon.
1893 F. C. Selous Trav. S.-E. Afr. 16 A splendid shooting horse.
shooting-jacket n.
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1796 J. Austen Let. 5 Sept. (1995) 8 Let me know..how many of the Gentlemen, Musicians & Waiters, he will have persuaded to come in their Shooting Jackets.
1831 P. Hawker Diary (1893) II. 28 I slipped on my shooting jacket.
shooting shoe n.
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1839 A. Mathews Mem. C. Mathews III. vii. 162 I had them made after a plan of my own, for shooting-shoes.
1976 Shooting Times & Country Mag. 18–24 Nov. 58/2 (advt.) The Golden Boot..our famous shooting shoe.
shooting-stocking n.
shooting-suit n.
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1893 R. Kipling in Illustr. London News Christmas No. 7/3 The Rao Sahib, in tweed shooting-suit and a radiant turban.
C2. Special combinations:
shooting-block n.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > shaping tools or equipment > plane > [noun] > other parts of plane
wedge1678
shooting-block1812
shooting-board1846
wear1853
chip breaker1870
mitre board1874
1812 P. Nicholson Mech. Exercises §63 (Joinery) The Shooting Block is two boards fixed together, the sides of which are lapped upon each other, so as to form a rebate for the purpose of making a short joint.
1885 C. G. W. Lock Workshop Receipts 4th Ser. 217/1 [Electrotyping] A shooting-block must be made.
shooting-board n. an appliance to facilitate the accurate planing of the edge of a board or stereotype plate, consisting of a board or block, upon which the material is laid, furnished with a rebate to guide the plane.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > shaping tools or equipment > plane > [noun] > other parts of plane
wedge1678
shooting-block1812
shooting-board1846
wear1853
chip breaker1870
mitre board1874
1846 C. Holtzapffel Turning & Mech. Manip. II. 502 In squaring or shooting the edges of boards, the shooting board..is very much used.
shooting booth n. a booth at a fair in which shooting for prizes is carried out (cf. shooting-gallery n. (a)).
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society > leisure > entertainment > place of amusement or entertainment > fairground or amusement park > [noun] > shooting booth
shooting-gallery1836
shooting booth1900
1900 Times 7 July 10/1 We may soon expect swings erected in the practice-ground, shooting booths under..the big stand.
1970 R. Lowell Notebk. 202 The shags Flying in straight lines like duck in a shooting booth.
shooting box n. a small country house in or adjacent to a shooting locality used as a residence while shooting.
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the world > food and drink > hunting > hunting area > hunting lodge > [noun]
lodge1465
forest-house1646
hunting-seat1716
sporting-box1787
hunting-box1799
shooting box1812
forest-lodge1847
shooting-lodge1859
society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > a dwelling > a house > types of house > [noun] > hunting-lodge
lodge1465
forest-house1646
hunting-seat1716
sporting-box1787
hunting-box1799
shooting box1812
forest-lodge1847
shooting-lodge1859
1812 R. Wilson Private Diary (1861) I. 42 Rode to La Favorita, the king's private shooting-box, about three miles from Palermo.
1837 J. G. Lockhart Mem. Life Scott IV. xi. 350 John Ballantyne, who had at this time a shooting or hunting-box a few miles off in the vale of the Leader.
shooting brake n. an estate car, now rare; originally a light, horse-drawn wagonette designed to accommodate passengers and goods (cf. break n.2).
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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > powered vehicle > motor car > [noun] > estate car
beach-wagon1869
ranch wagon1879
shooting brake1912
sport utility1925
station wagon1929
carryall1932
sports utility1940
ute1943
utility1944
estate car1950
wagon1955
estate wagon1959
SUV1987
1912 H. J. Butler Motor Bodies & Chassis iv. 48 Wagonettes, Shooting Brakes, and Luggage Cars.—This type of body fulfils the requirements of the sporting dogcart, and generally has sufficient capacity to replace two of these horsed vehicles.
1934 A. G. Street Endless Furrow xvii. 301 After a few minutes occupied with introductions and drinking a glass of sherry James found himself in the shooting brake, and soon the four-in-hand swept through the gates into the town.
1948 H. McCausland Eng. Carriage iv. 77 A very neat, very sporting little brake..intended for private use in the country with a team or pair, was the Shooting Brake, which had, behind its high box, a strong suggestion of the dog-cart in its bodywork.
1958 Times 13 Aug. 4/5 One man was killed and 11 people were injured when a shooting brake and a motor coach were in collision at Holcombe Brook, Bury, to-night.
shooting-fish n. = archer n. 5.
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the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > suborder Percoidei > [noun] > member of family Toxotidae (archer)
jaculator1765
shooting-fish1803
archer1834
rifle fish1897
1803 W. Bingley Animal Biogr. III. 136 The Beaked Chætodon or Shooting-fish.
shooting-gallery n. (a) a long room, or a booth at a fair, fitted with a target and other appliances for the practice of shooting; also figurative in colloquial phrase the whole shooting gallery = the whole shoot at shoot n.1 8; (b) U.S. slang, a place where addictive drugs may be obtained and ‘shot’ or taken by injection.
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society > leisure > entertainment > place of amusement or entertainment > fairground or amusement park > [noun] > shooting booth
shooting-gallery1836
shooting booth1900
society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > competitive shooting > [noun] > shooting-range
shooting-gallery1836
range1840
rifle range1857
shooting-range1908
the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > [noun] > place for injecting drugs
shooting-gallery1951
needle park1965
1836 C. Dickens Sketches by Boz 1st Ser. II. 216 The Pall-mall shooting-gallery.
1897 S. R. Crockett Sir Toady Lion xix. 151 The Aunt-Sallies, the shooting-galleries, and the miscellaneous side-shows [at the fair].
1951 Life 11 June 120/1 Sometimes he runs a ‘shooting gallery’, an establishment which not only sells the addict dope but furnishes hypodermics.
a1966 ‘M. na Gopaleen’ Best of Myles (1968) 323 Put the whole shooting gallery into a saucepan of cold water.
1972 J. Wambaugh Blue Knight (1973) ii. 36 He knows this boss dyke, a real mean bull dagger. Her pad's a shooting gallery for some of us.
1973 R. Busby Pattern of Violence v. 79 ‘Did you call in?’.. ‘Yeah... The whole shooting gallery 'll be here in a few minutes.’
shooting-glove n. Archery a glove worn to protect the hand in drawing a bow.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > competitive shooting > archery > [noun] > glove
shooting-glove1545
the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for hands > [noun] > glove > types of > for specific purpose
shooting-glove1545
draw glove1875
pillow1882
1545 R. Ascham Toxophilus ii. f. 1v Bracer, shotynggloue, stryng, bowe & shafte.
1801 T. Roberts Eng. Bowman 294 Shooting-glove, a glove used on the shaft-hand in drawing the String.
shooting-ground n. (a) = sense 1d; (b) that part of a gun-factory where rifles, etc. are tested; (c) a place where rubbish is shot.
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the world > food and drink > hunting > shooting > [noun] > shooting area
shooting-ground1835
shoot1861
rough shoot1883
rough-shooting1899
the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > clearing of refuse matter > refuse disposal > [noun] > place for disposing of refuse
Tophet1382
shooting-ground1835
shoot1851
dumping-ground1857
dump1872
toom1882
dust-shoot1883
coup1886
nuisance ground1889
tip1890
society > armed hostility > military equipment > production and development of arms > [noun] > manufacture of firearms and ammunition > testing > place for testing
proof house1712
proof1761
shooting-ground1835
1835 J. J. Audubon Ornithol. Biogr. III. 37 There is no lack of shooting grounds, for every creek of salt-water swarms with Marsh Hens.
1843 Knickerbocker Mag. 21 121 A gentleman who had asked his advice about the shooting-ground.
1859–61 E. B. Ramsay Reminisc. Sc. Life (1870) vi. 187 A young Englishman had taken a Scottish shooting-ground.
1868 C. B. Norton & W. J. Valentine Rep. to Govt. U.S. on Munitions of War at Paris Universal Exhib. 1867 37 The shooting-grounds of the Woolwich Arsenal.
1884 Pall Mall Gaz. 24 May 11/1 Australia has been for too many years already the shooting ground of Europe's rubbish.
1897 Outing Mar. 536/2 A shooting friend..and myself were staying at a farmhouse, near the shooting-grounds.
shooting-hole n. a pit made by a sportsman for purposes of concealment.
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the world > food and drink > hunting > shooting > [noun] > place to shoot from
standa1425
standinga1425
batterya1841
shooting-hole1850
butt1880
box1884
1850 R. Gordon-Cumming Five Years Hunter's Life S. Afr. I. iv. 83 At night I took up a position in an old shooting-hole beside the vley.
shooting-iron n. a firearm, esp. a revolver.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > firearm > small-arm > [noun]
handgun1411
piece1575
small arms1685
popper1751
shooting-iron1775
pelter1827
squib1839
shooter1840
shooting-stick1845
Betsy1856
smoke-wagon1891
rod1903
gat1904
belt gun1905
roscoe1914
smoke-stick1927
heat1928
heater1929
smoke-pole1929
John Roscoe1932
1775 S. Adams Let. 31 Jan. in Writings (1907) III. 172 It puts me in mind of what I remember to have heard you observe, that we may all be soon under the necessity of keeping Shooting Irons.
1793–9 J. Gerrond Advertisement v, in Wks. (1815) 109 Dear brother sportsmen, crack the springs Of these things I call shooting-irons.
1891 E. Peacock Narcissa Brendon I. 149 I shall keep this shooting-iron tonight.
shooting-lodge n. = shooting box n.
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the world > food and drink > hunting > hunting area > hunting lodge > [noun]
lodge1465
forest-house1646
hunting-seat1716
sporting-box1787
hunting-box1799
shooting box1812
forest-lodge1847
shooting-lodge1859
society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > a dwelling > a house > types of house > [noun] > hunting-lodge
lodge1465
forest-house1646
hunting-seat1716
sporting-box1787
hunting-box1799
shooting box1812
forest-lodge1847
shooting-lodge1859
1859 Queen Victoria Jrnl. (1868) 127 Inchrory (a shooting-lodge of Lord H. Bentinck's).
shooting match n. a competition testing skill in shooting; also figurative in colloquial phrase the whole shooting match = the whole shoot at shoot n.1 8.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > competitive shooting > [noun]
shooting match1750
wed-shooting1792
target1825
shoot1892
wappenschaw1899
1750 Acts Assembly Pennsylv. (1762) II. 33 Horse races, Shooting-matches, or other idle Sports.
1813 Weekly Reg. 4 35/1 I..gained their applause for my activity at our shooting matches.
1853 J. G. Baldwin Flush Times Alabama 127 Shooting-matches..and card-playing.
1896 G. Ade Artie xiv. 131 If they wanted me to be president o' the whole shootin' match, I'd..grow some side-whiskers and put up as tall a con game as that old stiff we've got there now.
1906 Springfield (Mass.) Weekly Republican 29 Mar. 4 You are not the whole shooting match, but a good share of it.
1922 D. H. Lawrence in N.Y. Times 24 Dec. 9/4 What a lively shooting match will go on between all the Jacks and the Juans!
1953 K. Reisz Technique Film Editing ii. 76 The final chase..was best presented as a ‘battle of wits’, instead of a wild action-packed shooting match.
1974 BP Shield Internat. Oct. 2/4 This had the effect of tilting up the whole shooting match.
shooting phaeton n. = shooting brake n. (originally sense) above.
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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > cart, carriage, or wagon > carriage for conveying persons > [noun] > types of carriage > wagonette or break
break1856
wagonette1858
shooting phaeton1890
1890 Coach Builders' Jrnl. 15 Nov. 181/2 Another of this firm's exhibits was a shooting phaeton... It was furnished with luncheon basket.
1898 Carriage Builders' Jrnl. Dec. p. ix/2 (advt.) Four-wheel shooting phaeton; varnished walnut; pigskin cushions, brass mounts and lamps, mat, and gun-box complete.
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shooting-plane n. a plane used with a shooting-board for squaring or bevelling the edges of stuff (Knight Mech. Dict. 1875).
shooting-range n. a place used for the practice of shooting, having the various ranges or distances marked off between the respective firing points and the targets.
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society > armed hostility > drill or training > [noun] > weapon-training > firing practice > place for firing practice
firing line1854
rifle range1857
range1873
shooting-range1908
firing range2004
society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > competitive shooting > [noun] > shooting-range
shooting-gallery1836
range1840
rifle range1857
shooting-range1908
1908 J. Wells Stewart of Lovedale vi. 41 One of his amusements was to practise at the shooting-range.
shooting seat n. = shooting-stick n. (c) below, now rare.
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the world > space > relative position > support > [noun] > that which supports > something to lean on > staff to lean on > shooting-stick
shooting seat1895
shooting-stick1926
1895 Army & Navy Co-op Soc. Price List 15 Sept. 954 Cane shooting seat.
1895 Army & Navy Co-op Soc. Price List 15 Sept. 954 Wood, folding Shooting Seat, can be used as a Walking Stick.
1917 Harrods Gen. Catal. 1089/2 Mills' Patent Shooting Seats. Strongly recommended as being the lightest and best seat, it is also telescopic.
shooting-stick n. (a) Printing a piece of hard wood or metal which is struck by a mallet to loosen or tighten the quoins in a chase; (b) slang = shooting-iron n. (obsolete); (c) a walking-stick with a handle that may be opened to form an impromptu seat, first used by shooters.
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society > communication > printing > composing equipment > [noun] > tools
shooting-stick1683
bodkin1846
planer1858
straight-edge1888
persuader1898
society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > firearm > small-arm > [noun]
handgun1411
piece1575
small arms1685
popper1751
shooting-iron1775
pelter1827
squib1839
shooter1840
shooting-stick1845
Betsy1856
smoke-wagon1891
rod1903
gat1904
belt gun1905
roscoe1914
smoke-stick1927
heat1928
heater1929
smoke-pole1929
John Roscoe1932
the world > space > relative position > support > [noun] > that which supports > something to lean on > staff to lean on > shooting-stick
shooting seat1895
shooting-stick1926
1683 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises II. 31 The Shooting-stick must be made of Box.
1845 E. J. Wakefield Adventure in N.Z. I. xi. 319 Every article of trade with the natives has its slang term,—in order that they may converse with each other respecting a purchase without initiating the natives into their calculations, thus pigs and potatoes were respectively represented by ‘grunters’ and ‘spuds’, guns..by ‘shooting-sticks’.
1866 ‘F. Kirkland’ Pictorial Bk. Anecd. 237/2 Sambo..fell back in confusion when the ‘shooting stick’ was brandished toward his own breast.
1882 J. Southward Pract. Printing (1884) 68 The shooting-stick..transmits the pressure from the mallet to the quoin.
1926 E. P. Oppenheim Golden Beast i. xvii. 163 Judith had already disappeared, swinging her shooting stick in her hand.
1929 H. V. Morton In Search of Scotl. v. § 6. 137 The Mayfair and Belgravia clans sit their shooting-sticks with renewed expectation.
1967 Guardian 23 May 2/6 The shooting sticks will prod the roots of every stately garden.
shooting-tool n. Mining a tool or implement used in blasting.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > equipment for working with other materials > [noun] > with explosives > others
portfire1629
port-feu1802
exploder1820
detonator1822
safety fuse1832
shooting-tool1855
magneto-exploder1869
shot-firer1883
initiator1915
booster1917
1855 J. R. Leifchild Cornwall: Mines & Miners 112 The blasting or shooting tools of the miner.
shooting war n. hostilities involving armed conflict, as opposed to cold war n. at cold adj. Compounds 4; first used with reference to U.S. involvement in the war of 1939–45.
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society > armed hostility > war > types of war > [noun] > active or open war
open warc1380
hot war1600
shooting war1941
1941 Time 4 Aug. 15/3 55%..are ready to risk some kind of shooting war at once.
1956 F. Castle Violent Hours vi. 51 I got into the real shooting war towards the close, at Okinawa.
1978 L. Heren Growing up on The Times iii. 86 Pat had joined me before the end of the shooting war, and was almost killed in Jerusalem.
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shooting guard n. Basketball a guard (guard n. 7d) whose primary objective is to score points with long-distance shots; (also) this position on the court.
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1910 Mansfield (Ohio) News 19 Mar. 10/4 Leppo..was brought on especially to be played against Click, the star basket-shooting guard of the Marion five.]
1914 Newport (Rhode Island) Daily News 15 Apr. 8/5 Horgan..changed his style towards the last part of the season and developed into a shooting guard.
1978 Washington Post 17 Dec. m12/6 Graham..will line up at shooting guard and King, if he has to be taped from his neck to his knees, will play at small forward.
2008 L. Leslie & L. Burnett Don't let Lipstick fool You iv. 68 Tammy was a shooting guard..who never really got the chance to excel completely, because she had to play the point guard position.
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shootingadj.
/ˈʃuːtɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈʃudɪŋ/ That shoots.
1. Moving swiftly, darting.
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the world > movement > rate of motion > swiftness > swift movement in specific manner > [adjective] > moving with sudden speed or darting
scautanda1400
lashing14..
launchanta1500
shooting1535
flitting1620
darting1664
jetting1694
arrowy1797
jaculatorial1856
fuel-injected1963
1535 Bible (Coverdale) Isa. xxx. B The waye that is ful of parell and trouble, because of the lyon and lyones, of the Cockatrice and shutynge dragon.
c1710 J. Hughes Ode to Creator iv The shooting flame obeys th' eternal will, Launch'd from his hand.
1798 W. Wordsworth Lines Tintern Abbey in W. Wordsworth & S. T. Coleridge Lyrical Ballads 208 I..read My former pleasures in the shooting lights Of thy wild eyes.
1887 G. Meredith Ballads & Poems 151 A pool of scum for shooting flies.
2. Sprouting, growing.
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the world > plants > by growth or development > [adjective] > sprouting or germinating
bearingOE
burgeoninga1382
burging1398
springingc1400
sprouting1531
upstarting1581
sprigging1583
teeming1642
germinating1657
fruticant1670
shooting1717
chipping1743
1717 A. Pope Fable of Dryope in Wks. 277 The shooting leaves are seen To rise, And shade her.
1798 J. Grant & W. Leslie Surv. Province Moray iii. 278 A luxuriantly shooting grove of different species of trees.
3. Of pain: Sharp and sudden, darting, lancinating. Also of a diseased part, a corn, etc. (see shoot v. 5).
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the world > health and disease > ill health > pain > types of pain > [adjective] > sudden
angrya1500
pang-likea1586
twinging1647
stitching1699
shooting1752
lancing1758
lancinating1762
stabbing1764
catching1820
fulgurating1878
c1000 Sax. Leechd. II. 324 Wiþ sceotendum wenne.
1710 J. Swift in J. Swift & R. Steele Tatler No. 238 A coming Shower your shooting Corns presage.
1752 G. Berkeley Thoughts Tar-water in Wks. (1871) III. 497 The shooting pains that precede a cancer.
1898 P. Manson Trop. Dis. xxiii. 354 Among the sympathetic pains [in liver abscess] may be mentioned shooting pains radiating over the chest.
1899 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. VIII. 618 Pain is usually present from the first, it is shooting in character.
4. Cricket. (See shoot v. 1i.)
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > cricket > bowling > [adjective] > types of delivery or ball
wide1827
shooting1833
full-pitched1834
bumping1851
overpitched1855
hand over head1862
bumpy1864
right arm1877
breaking1881
fast-breaking1893
leg-breaking1896
hittable1898
off-breaking1904
inswinging1920
underpitched1927
outswinging1929
1833 J. Nyren Young Cricketer's Tutor 72 Bowling a wicket down with a shooting ball.
5. Addicted to the sport of shooting.
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the world > food and drink > hunting > shooting > shooter > [adjective]
pot-hunting1808
sniping1840
gunning1883
shooting1891
1891 L. B. Walford Mischief of Monica xiv She was expecting guests from the North, ‘shooting men’.
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