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shooting

/ˈʃuːtɪŋ/ adjective B1
  1. Moving or growing quickly · Shooting beams of light played over the sea.
  2. Of a pain, sudden and darting · I often feel a shooting pain in my arm.
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“But if I do fight, you will surely not object to giving me a lesson or two in shooting and fencing?”
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 809 · C1
Barry kept for duck shooting.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 220 · C1
Between times Anne grew, shooting up so rapidly that Marilla was astonished one day, when they were standing side by side, to find the girl was taller than herself.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 263 · C1
I had no notion but he would go a-shooting, or something or other, and not disturb us with his company.
Pride and Prejudice, p. 354 · B2

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