Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who is (well or ill) skilled in pigeon-shooting.
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Examples
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'' At this all was let loose; some students put asafetida on the stove; others threw pigeon-shot against the ceiling and windows, making a most appalling din, and one wretch put in deadly work with a syringe thrust through the canvas representation of the man of brass with feet of clay.
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I told her that I was not a pigeon-shot, and she gave
Ranson's Folly Richard Harding Davis 1890
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