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Meanings of skeet in English
Catalan
tir al plat The sport of shooting at clay pigeons that are hurled upward in such a way as to simulate the flight of a bird.
Synonyms
Examples for "trapshooting"
Examples for "trapshooting"
1
The Olympic Club also maintains the Lakeside Country Club with a golf course and trapshooting facilities.
2
The New Yorker, May 22, 1937 P. 13 Personality of Joe Hiestand, who holds the title of North American amateur doubles trapshooting champion.
3
Trapshooting was originally developed to provide a method of practice for bird hunters, even the targets were called clay pigeons.
4
Trapshooting is a peculiar sport; the amateurs shoot for money and the professionals, who are employed by gun and powder companies shoot for trophies.
1
I found it great fun and just as relaxing as skeet shooting.
2
She now hopes to represent England in a skeet shooting competition in August.
3
It's essentially the underwater equivalent of skeet shooting, except with torpedoes.
4
He slapped the breech closed against his arm like he was skeet shooting.
5
He knows more about the philosophy of skeet shooting than about the Code of Land Laws.
Usage of skeet in English
1
I found it great fun and just as relaxing as skeet shooting.
2
If I hear anything, I will send word at once, by skeet.'
3
Now skeet out ez fast ez the hosse's legs will tote ye.
4
Yossarian was as bad at shooting skeet as he was at gambling.
5
She now hopes to represent England in a skeet shooting competition in August.
6
A skeet was caged on the other side, to carry a message back.
7
Shooting skeet eight hours a month was excellent training for them.
8
She headed in the other direction, out behind the skeet houses.
9
Your report so alarmed Fyn-Mah that she sent it to me by skeet.
10
It's essentially the underwater equivalent of skeet shooting, except with torpedoes.
11
Flydd sprang over the side, his eye on the wheeling skeet.
12
He slapped the breech closed against his arm like he was skeet shooting.
13
Nish fed the skeet with a couple of half-frozen rats from a bin.
14
A messenger was hurrying out through the great doors, carrying a sealed skeet packet.
15
So urgent, in fact, that it had come by skeet.
16
The skeet was gliding towards the rear of the building.
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Skeet through the time