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An athlete noted for accurate aim
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sharpshooter
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. an athlete noted for accurate aim someone skilled in shooting [syn: marksman , crack shot ] a fast schooner once used by New England fisherman for illegal fishing in Canadian waters
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The Sharpshooter , originally named Sasori-gatame , Scorpion Hold in English, is a professional wrestling submission hold . The move is similar to several other holds: cloverleaf leg-lace, Boston crab , standing reverse figure-four leglock , and, is also ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also sharp-shooter , 1800; see sharp (adj.) + shoot (v.). A translation of German Scharfschütze , from scharf (adj.) "sharp" + schütze "shooter," from schießen "to shoot." Related: Sharpshooting .
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sharpshooter \Sharp"shoot`er\, n. One skilled in shooting at an object with exactness; a good marksman.
Usage examples of sharpshooter.
He wanted to before, but now that someone jumps off the starting high-flier and shouts his name plus his super annuated rank to the ends of the world, the meanwhile alderman and sharpshooter Heinrich Osterhues has lost all inclination and wants only to make himself scarce.
Coop, Oakley was so good that she outshot the greatest sharpshooter alive, Frank Butler.
To meet the English, Iberville, Sainte-Helene, and Perrot issued forth with three hundred sharpshooters and a band of Huron Indians.
The Americans conquered their frontier, sharpshooters against tomahawks, with first the mountain men slaughtering Indians for their furs, followed by the U.
EVENING, MAY 7, 1864 ALL DAY LONG THE SKIRMISHERS AND SHARPSHOOTERS FROM both sides prodded and punched the nervous lines of their enemy.
The men on the front lines had become wary of the rebel sharpshooters, stayed.
John Wayne was liable to hear about it and blow his cork, the decision was not to use the sharpshooter, but rather to instruct the Secret Service trapshooters to go to the range with their revolvers and to keep an eye on the Mouse.
To make out the Boer position the mounted infantry galloped round one of their flanks, and in doing so passed close to a kopje which was occupied by sharpshooters.
Most of the enemy galloped very comfortably away after the action, leaving a fringe of sharpshooters among the kopjes to hold back our pursuing cavalry.
Rebel sharpshooters that annoyed us more than all the rest, by their constant firing at us through the night.
He glanced around the room, but could see no sharpshooters ranged along the walls either.
Amidst hushed emptiness a platform raises one hundred thirty-two sharpshooters toward the tent roof.
Behind it the Southern sharpshooters were packed in thousands, and every battery was well placed.
I imagine our greatest danger is from sharpshooters at the head of it.
The combat was now often face to face, and sharpshooters, hidden in every angle and hollow of the earth, picked off men by hundreds.