sharpshooting
English
editEtymology
editsharp + shooting; see sharpshooter.
Noun
editsharpshooting (countable and uncountable, plural sharpshootings)
- Highly accurate marksmanship.
- Daniel Boone's sharpshooting earned him a place in the annals of the American west.
- 1856, credited to Edward O. C. Ord., Soldiering in Oregon
- Owing to a want of proper concert among ourselves, I think, the battle became a series of detached skirmishes and sharpshootings, continuing all day […]
Verb
editsharpshooting
- present participle and gerund of sharpshoot