shooting
/ˈʃuːtɪŋ/ noun B2- an instance of shooting with a gun or other weapon · Police are hunting the people who carried out the shootings last week.
- the sport or activity of firing a gun or other weapon · I take part in shooting at the local archery club.
- a district in which people have the right to kill game with firearms
- the act of one who, or that which, shoots · the shooting of rays of light
- a sensation of darting pain · a shooting in one's head
- filming
Plural shootings
From the library
“But if I do fight, you will surely not object to giving me a lesson or two in shooting and fencing?”
Dorothy ran down and helped the Scarecrow to his feet, and the Lion came up to her, feeling rather bruised and sore, and said, “It is useless to fight people with shooting heads; no one can withstand them.”
“There wasn’t any trouble over treaties when it was a question of shooting the poor Duc d’Enghien.”
If they fire, Watson, have no compunction about shooting them down.”
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