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The Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea
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shoot, to, a verb with more than one nautical meaning. A navigator is said
to shoot the sun, or any heavenly body, when he takes its
altitude with a
sextant. A sailing vessel is said
to shoot, or
fore-reach, when she
luffs into the wind and makes distance to
windward. A fisherman, when using a
drift net or
purse seine net,
shoots his nets when he lays them, but the word does not apply when fishing with a
trawl. When a naval gunlayer's
shots were very wide of his target, he was said
to be shooting the
compass.
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Shooting with style.(new sportswear collections for women)
Magazine article from: WWD; 5/29/1997; 700+ words
; ...participation of women in the so-called "shooting sports" -- target shoot- ing...growth this year. In 1996, target shooting and hunting ranked first and second...respectively, as the two most popular shooting sports among women. The former...
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Only Optical Shooting is Absolutely Safe for Shooters.
PR Newswire; 1/26/2007; 700+ words
; ...Jan. 26 /PRNewswire/ -- Optical shooting will remarkably support the training...says that every soldier should be taught shooting skills before having a single bullet...He says that the results of optical shooting training are tremendous based on his...
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Making shooting a family sport.(Arms and the woman)
Magazine article from: Shooting Industry; 6/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...women for their contributions to the shooting sports at the state, regional or local...Cypress, Texas. Susan Darnall started shooting 40 years ago, and currently enjoys IDPA...1994, she established Darnall's Youth Shooting Clinic, which provides firearms education...
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 "Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)")
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ANOTHER SHOOTING ON AREA FREEWAYS LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS WON'T LINK INCIDENTS.(News)
Newspaper article from: Daily News (Los Angeles, CA); 5/3/2005; 700+ words
; ...decrease in the number of freeway shootings and gang shootings so far this year, compared...The Antelope Valley Freeway shooting was the 12th so far this year...last year. Sunday's two gang shootings increased the Valley's gang...
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Shooting galleries, dope houses, and injection doctors: Examining the social ecology of HIV risk behaviors among drug injectors in Dayton, Ohio
Magazine article from: Human Organization; 10/1/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...used to deconstruct what constitutes a "shooting gallery" from the perspective of drug...is examined. Results demonstrate that shooting galleries differ significantly from the...needle renting did not occur in Dayton's shooting galleries after 1989. Shooting galleries...
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 "Baltimore Sun (Baltimore, MD)")
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Shootings by police climb: As violence in city increases, so does use of guns by officers.
Newspaper article from: Baltimore Sun (Baltimore, MD); 9/16/2007; 700+ words
; ...This year, one fatal shooting and nine nonfatal shootings have been deemed justified...a line-of-duty shooting is rare. Three officers...between the rise in shootings and the overall rise...basis. "For every shooting that does occur...
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4 COLUMBUS SHOOTINGS LINKED
Newspaper article from: Dayton Daily News; 12/3/2003; ; 669 words
; ...highway - the 12th being the shooting Nov. 11 at the school that...tests confirmed that the four shootings are connected, but added...are related." The four shootings from the same gun include the shooting of a yellow freight truck...
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Belleville Shooting Range Offers Area Residents a Chance to Take 'First Shots' With Modern Sporting Rifles
Newspaper article from: U.S. Newswire; 6/5/2009; 540 words
; To: STATE EDITORS Contact: Ben Cerca, Belleville Shooting Range, +1-973-759-3968, for National Shooting Sports Foundation Free Seminar to Feature Supervised Live-Fire Shooting of Modern Sporting Rifles BELLEVILLE, N.J., June...
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Shooting Star Sails Into Asia.
Business Wire; 1/8/1996; 700+ words
; ...BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 8, 1996--SHOOTING STAR TECH (Alberta Stock Exchange:SSJ) Shooting Star Technologies Inc. announces the signing...the first and second years of operation Shooting Star will receive 80 percent of the profit...
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2 Ohio shootings added to highway inquiry
Newspaper article from: Daily Breeze; 12/6/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...only person hit in the shootings. At Fader's home...Fitch acknowledged the shooting has them spooked...link the rest of the shootings, investigators believe...connected. The house shooting expands the investigation...freeway. In one of the shootings, an Akron couple reported...
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shooting
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
shooting firing with rifle, shotgun, pistol...stationary or moving targets. The term shooting is also used in Great Britain to mean...In the 19th cent. the sport of rifle shooting became increasingly popular in England...
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Shooting Heads
Book article from: Fly Fishing: The Lifetime Sport
Shooting Heads I find that shooting heads are useful in salmon, steelhead, and float tube fishing. I prefer a twenty to thirty pound monofilament shooting line. Amnesia is my brand of choice because I can easily straighten...
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shooting range
Book article from: The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military
shooting range an area provided with targets for the controlled practice of shooting.
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shooting method
Book article from: A Dictionary of Computing
shooting method An iterative method for the solution of boundary-value problems in ordinary differential equations...can be used at several interior points to reduce error propagation; this is known as the parallel-shooting method .
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parallel shooting method
Book article from: A Dictionary of Computing
parallel shooting method See shooting method .
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