Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Shooting at clay pigeons hurled into the air from spring traps.
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- noun The
sport , similar toskeet , of shooting at thrown targets with ashotgun .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the sport of shooting at clay pigeons that are hurled upward in such a way as to simulate the flight of a bird
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Examples
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Although these different techniques work well in trapshooting, they don't always translate to success in the field.
How to Get Ahead 2008
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Although these different techniques work well in trapshooting, they don't always translate to success in the field.
How to Get Ahead 2008
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When I was a freshman in high school we had a county wide traveling trapshooting league.
Hunter Ethics 2009
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Yes | No | Report from muskiemaster wrote 28 weeks 5 hours ago are pup passed her gun dog test during the 4th while people were trapshooting in the field and she played in the pond.
Kaboom! 2009
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We invite the Tudeskos and Parisios to Placer County, where we have 5 high schools with trapshooting teams, approved by the district!
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When I was a freshman in high school we had a county wide traveling trapshooting league.
Hunter Ethics 2009
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Yes | No | Report from muskiemaster wrote 28 weeks 5 hours ago are pup passed her gun dog test during the 4th while people were trapshooting in the field and she played in the pond.
Kaboom! 2009
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I was well over the age of 21 and out on my own before I discovered trapshooting and reloading, which was shooting for fun, not meat.
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Baited with alcohol-soaked grain, gassed with sulfur fires and loaded live into trapshooting launchers (they were later replaced with clay "pigeons"), the passenger pigeon population quickly petered out.
Three Ways to Drive an Animal to Extinction - Boing Boing 2009
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I was well over the age of 21 and out on my own before I discovered trapshooting and reloading, which was shooting for fun, not meat.
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