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Webster 1913 Edition
Sharpshooting
Sharp′shootˊing
,Noun.
A shooting with great precision and effect; hence, a keen contest of wit or argument.
Definition 2024
sharpshooting
sharpshooting
English
Noun
sharpshooting (plural sharpshootings)
- Highly accurate marksmanship.
- Daniel Boone's sharpshooting earned him a place in the annals of the American west.
- Bret Harte
- Owing to a want of proper concert among ourselves, I think, the battle became a series of detached skirmishes and sharpshootings, continuing all day […]
Verb
sharpshooting
- present participle of sharpshoot