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ˈflight-shooting, vbl. n.
[f. flight n.1 + shooting vbl. n.]
1. Archery. Distance-shooting with flight-arrows.
1801T. Roberts Eng. Bowman x. 237 Flight-shooting takes its appellation from the flight, or light arrows used in this game: which is shot without regard to mark, or fixed distance..The greatest possible distance is the only object. 1875Sharpe in Encycl. Brit. II. 377/2 ‘Flight’ and ‘clout’ shooting has ceased.
2. Shooting wildfowl as they fly over.
1840D. P. Blaine Encycl. Rural Sports vii. iv. §2750 Flight-shooting. 1859H. C. Folkard Wild-Fowler liii. 276 The term ‘flight-shooting’ signifies shooting wild-fowl at evening twilight as they fly overland from the sea [etc.].
attrib.1859H. C. Folkard Wild-Fowler liii. 279 A flight-shooting excursion.
So ˈflight-shooter.
1859H. C. Folkard Wild-Fowler liii. 276 The flight-shooter waits in ambush behind an embankment. |