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单词 shoot compass
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to shoot compass
b. Archery. to shoot compass: to shoot at an elevation, so as to allow for the curve of the projectile. Obsolete. Cf. A. 6b.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > action of propelling missile > use of bow and arrow > shoot arrows [verb (intransitive)] > shoot at an elevation
to shoot compass1545
1545 R. Ascham Toxophilus i. f. 48v Ye take so greate heade, to kepe youre standynge, to shoote compasse.
1545 R. Ascham Toxophilus ii. f. 1v To marke his standyng, to shote compasse, to draw..to lowse.
1611 J. Speed Hist. Great Brit. ix. xi. 557/2 They shot their arrowes compasse, with purpose to kill or gall such Scots as came to the execution.
figurative.1630 J. Shirley Gratefull Seruant v. i Shoot not so much compass, be brief, and answer me.
extracted from compassn.1adj.adv.
to shoot compass
b. intransitive. To engage in archery (in modern use occasionally in rifle-practice, etc.) as a sport or contest. †to shoot compass (obsolete): see compass adv. 3b.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > competitive shooting > shoot competitively [verb (intransitive)]
shootc1275
to shoot a match1840
to shoot off a tie1840
c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 12325 Summe heo gunnen lepen summe heo gunnen sceoten [c1300 Otho sceate]. summe heo wræstleden.
c1412 T. Hoccleve De Regimine Principum 651 No more I hadde set þerby or roght, A wif or mayde or nune to deffoule, Than scheete, or pleyen at þe bal or boule.
1589 ‘M. Marprelate’ Hay any Worke for Cooper A iij b When the wether is foule, that men cannot go abroad to boules, or to shoote.
1801 T. Roberts Eng. Bowman 293 To shoot down the butts, to begin at the furthest, and end at the shortest butt.
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