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  • verb Present participle of soot.

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Examples

  • Anyway last year same farm early season, .. thought I was sooting a BIG doe satning in eh thick stuff at 30 yds, .. got up to the deer and one antler was very screwed up growing flat down the side of his face the other was just a point, .. less than three inches

    My "Tilter" Buck Comes Home 2009

  • Anyway last year same farm early season, .. thought I was sooting a BIG doe satning in eh thick stuff at 30 yds, .. got up to the deer and one antler was very screwed up growing flat down the side of his face the other was just a point, .. less than three inches

    My "Tilter" Buck Comes Home 2009

  • After some shooting on the sooting range, you get into a plywood model where they train a scenario of an attack on a freighter.

    Archive 2008-12-01 2008

  • After some shooting on the sooting range, you get into a plywood model where they train a scenario of an attack on a freighter.

    X-Box Game Impressions 2008

  • Safety and Security Minister Sydney Mufamadi said he was concerned that sections of the media and the public had already judged the policemen involved in the sooting, and found them guilty.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1998

  • PORT ELIZABETH (Ecna 26 July 1996) - "Why are you sleeping while they are sooting?"

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1996

  • After that all had gone well -- except for a plug sooting on number three cylinder and a halt for petrol about fifty miles outside London.

    Men of Affairs Roland Pertwee

  • The night-watchman, Alfred Swanson, took care of this curious plant, which consisted of a battery of petroleum lamps that were forced to burn to the sooting point.

    Edison, His Life and Inventions, vol. 1 1910

  • The night-watchman, Alfred Swanson, took care of this curious plant, which consisted of a battery of petroleum lamps that were forced to burn to the sooting point.

    Edison, His Life and Inventions Frank Lewis Dyer 1905

  • This was a 19th century method of lighting the stage by sooting a gal torch at a block of lime calcium oxide.

    NPR Topics: News 2011

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