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☆ skeet (skēt)

noun

trapshooting in which the shooter fires from different stations, usually eight, at clay disks thrown from traps to simulate birds in flight

Etymology: 20th-c. adoption and alteration of ON skeyti, projectile, akin to skjōta, to shoot

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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