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Definition of Sighter
1. Noun. A trial shot in rifle or artillery shooting, to set the range, targeting etc. ¹
2. Noun. a sight on a weapon ¹
3. Noun. a targeteer ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Sighter
1. one that sights [n -S] - See also: sights
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sighter
Literary usage of Sighter
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The School World (1901)
"Fig. i, //., represents a simple form of " sighter " which can be made with glass
... Place the "sighter "so as to observe the beam of light along the line ..."
2. Small Arms Instructors Manual: An Intensive Course, Including Official "C by Reginald H. Sayre, Stowe Phelps, Gerard P. Herrick, Small arms instruction corps (1917)
"Aiming down to counteract Battle Sight, or long range elevation, for short ranges:
With an adjustable rest for rifle, the "sighter" is instructed to ..."
3. Sharpshooting for Sport and War by William Wellington Greener (1900)
"of the I3th Middlesex Volunteers, who made ten bull's- eyes with eleven
shots—including the 'sighter,' a bull— at Staines in the South London, July 1898. ..."
4. St. Mary's Hospital Gazette by St. Mary's Hospital (London, England) (1904)
"'s), for which there are 4 shoots at a fortnight's interval, each shoot being i
sighter and 7 shots at 200, 500, and 6co yards ranges, for a team of 6 from ..."
5. The Fig: Its History, Culture, and Curing: With a Descriptive Catalogue of by Gustav Eisen (1901)
"The sighter stands at one end of the line or row while the driver begins his work
at the farther end. The driver holds first the lath perpendicularly over ..."
6. Annual ReportLabor laws and legislation (1907)
"... during the operation of filling or corking, a fragment of a bursting bottle
from striking any bottler, wirer, sighter, labeller or washer. ..."
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