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Skill in hitting a target
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marksmanship
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ For a moment, he wanted the boy to share his amusement, to applaud his marksmanship . ▪ He did well there, putting his marksmanship to better use by becoming expert in tiger shooting. ▪ In most of Texas's rural counties the sheriff ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. skill in shooting
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Marksmanship \Marks"man*ship\, n. Skill of a marksman.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1823, from marksman + -ship .
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The ability to shoot accurately at a target.
Usage examples of marksmanship.
He expected Brount to propose a test of marksmanship, or perhaps a feat of strength.
Shards of brittle bone protruded from both thighs and both knees, where Lara Raith had exercised her marksmanship.
General Brisbane-Brown, and on the polished parts of the floor, which the Aubusson did not reach, lay various trophies of his marksmanship.
Our cavalla had to be forced to embrace the musketry and marksmanship that flouted the traditions of old knighthood.
Rejects get started: a thin, quiet man named Henry Anders who had fought well against the prowlers the night before, even though his determination had been greater than his marksmanship.
Spanish Riflemen, grinned with pleasure at his own deadly marksmanship.
From the confident manner with which she held her long-barreled slugthrower, Mirina guessed that some of the medals were for marksmanship.
Marksmanship was of an acceptable order, though Brasche had serious reservations that any amount of normal training would be adequate to teach anyone to shoot well when there was an enemy shooting back.
After they left, she found a spent cartridge bearing the name "Mannlicher-Carcanno," the rifle that the Warren Commission claimed Oswald used to perform his historic feat of marksmanship in Dealy Plaza.
I would not wish to take an examination in marksmanship with a hostile or insane host dephasing my surface.
Previously the palace's paltry food supplies had been augmented by the ingenuity of the Benbrook sisters, Nazeera, the kitchen staff and, of course, by David Benbrook's marksmanship.
That was all well and good, Harrisson said, good for the machine-gunner’s cool-headedness and marksmanship, but the increase in VC activity indicated that reports of an impending enemy attack on the airfield were more than rumor.
We are men of the world, in everythingsex, free verse, marksmanship.
Mike was joyed over his marksmanship since he had been able to sneak only two looks when guidance & tracking radars were not in use and had relied on just one nudge to bring it to bullseye.
It wasn't quite as good a position as it had seemed from below, but the rough boulder offered at least some cover, as well as a rest for her weapon, and she rolled up into position, thanking the Marine instructors who had insisted on drilling even midshipwomen in the rudiments of marksmanship.