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Definition of Trapshooter
1. Noun. A person who engages in shooting at clay pigeons that are hurled into the air by a trap.
Definition of Trapshooter
1. Noun. A participant in the sport of trapshooting. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Trapshooter
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Trapshooter
Literary usage of Trapshooter
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Auk: Quarterly Journal of Ornithology by American Ornithologists' Union, Nuttall Ornithological Club (1917)
"I picked up the gun and placed it to the shoulder and old hunter and old trapshooter
as I was I could not hold the gun still I trembled so. ..."
2. The Financial Policy of Corporations by Arthur Stone Dewing (1920)
"Only 11 "A Kansas City man wrote a check for $200 for trapshooter shares. Later at
the suggestion of his wife he tore up the check and bought his wife a set ..."
3. Financing an Enterprise by Hugh Ronald Conyngton (1921)
"... EARLY: $100 invested in the Fowler Farm brought $15000 $100 invested in the
trapshooter 40000 $100 invested in Kern River Co 8000 $100 invested in Pinol ..."
4. An Explorer in the Air Service by Hiram Bingham (1920)
"... to use his sights quickly and accurately, as instinctively as a trapshooter
firing at clay pigeons; to handle his plane intuitively in all manoeuvres ..."
5. Firearms in American History by Charles Winthrop Sawyer (1920)
"First, and while continuing the use of our present styles of sporting and military
rifles, the skill of the trapshooter with his shotgun must be taught to, ..."
6. Safety Engineering (1914)
"A professional trapshooter, going through a fence, blew his arm off. A big game
hunter was instantly killed by the accidental discharge of his gun. ..."
7. Resources and Industries of the United States by Elizabeth Florette Fisher (1919)
"trapshooter well, discharging twenty-two thousand barrels of oil a day, showing
overflow from tank using more than we produce. This shortage is being made ..."
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