Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Shot in the wing.
- Shot while on the wing. See
wing-shooting . - noun A shot made at a bird on the wing.
- noun One who shoots flying birds.
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Examples
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I shoot custom chokes, and am a better than average wing-shot, but no complaints about 3 loads here.
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My late father was a splendid wing-shot on quail and probably did not even know which houses were high and low for skeet, or that there was such a thing as "sporting clays."
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I shoot custom chokes, and am a better than average wing-shot, but no complaints about 3 loads here.
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My late father was a splendid wing-shot on quail and probably did not even know which houses were high and low for skeet, or that there was such a thing as "sporting clays."
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They had wing-shot three or four ducks when Ray brought down a mallard and went chasing it through the corn patch.
Raymond Carver Carol Sklenicka 2009
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And so the setter on the rug meant that Richard Travis was the best wing-shot in the Tennessee Valley, and that his kennel of Gladstone setters had won more field trials than any other kennel in the South.
The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills John Trotwood Moore
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Meantime Boone stood quietly by the camp-fire, entirely in the open, coolly potting the enemy as regularly and surely as a master wing-shot thinning a flight of ducks.
The Red-Blooded Heroes of the Frontier Edgar Beecher Bronson
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With a shot-gun he was the best wing-shot I ever heard a man tell about.
Man to Man Jackson Gregory 1912
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It is natural for an awkward and blundering wing-shot to love the deadliest gun, in order that he may make as good a bag as an expert shot can make with a double-barreled gun.
Our Vanishing Wild Life Its Extermination and Preservation William Temple Hornaday 1895
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a boy barely more than retriever of wing-shot bodies, see how he snatches them from the scum of ice and wrings them like he's turning the crank of a machine, so hard sometimes the neck snaps, then winds to a thread, then severs, body flung back into the water, head and black beak dripping in his hand.
Guernica Magazine 2009
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