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Definition of Line-shooting
1. Noun. An instance of boastful talk. "Whenever he won we were exposed to his gasconade"
Generic synonyms: Boast, Boasting, Jactitation, Self-praise
Derivative terms: Brag, Braggy, Crow, Crow, Crow, Gasconade
Lexicographical Neighbors of Line-shooting
Literary usage of Line-shooting
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Water-fowl Family by Leonard Cutler Sanford, Louis Bennett Bishop, Theodore Strong Van Dyke (1903)
"Very often amusing instances happen in line shooting; a bird, bewildered by
successive shots, sometimes passes over the whole line of boats, and is missed ..."
2. Thirty-seven Years of Big Game Shooting in Cooch Behar, the Duars, and Assam by Nṛipendra Nārāyaṇa Bhūpa (1908)
"This form of line shooting with "stops" is usually practicable in all countries
I have shot over. The " stops " generally get the shooting in the case of ..."
3. The Science of Dry Fly Fishing and Salmon Fly Fishing by Frederick George Shaw (1907)
"BD shows the line shooting forward at the end of the forward cast and at the
moment when the rod should be lowered and the line fed. ..."
4. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1836)
"That very afternoon we went out to practise, and the major soon put me in the
way of line-shooting, with such precision, as to muke it a caution, ..."
5. The Science of Dry Fly Fishing and Salmon Fly Fishing by Frederick George Shaw (1907)
"BD shows the line shooting forward at the end of the forward cast and at the
moment when the rod should be lowered and the line fed. ..."
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