shoot|ing

shoot|ing
shoot|ing «SHOO tihng», noun.
1. the act of a person or thing that shoots.
2. a shoot or sprout.
3. the exclusive right to kill game on a particular tract: »

Gentlemen…combine and lease the shooting over wide areas (Richard Jefferie).

4. the tract itself.

Useful english dictionary. 2012.

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