shootery
/ˈʃuːtəɹi/
Etymology
From shoot + -ery.
shootery means synonym of marksmanship (“the art of shooting”). Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 93 out of 100.
shootery is pronounced /ˈʃuːtəɹi/.
noun
- Synonym of marksmanship (“the art of shooting”).“Come, girls, there's rumoured war, so practice archery,
And drill yourselves in shootery and marchery;
And if you think you'd like to have a colonel, one
You'll find in me, [illegible]. —The Office Boy's Maternal One.”
- Synonym of shooting range (“a place to practice marksmanship”).“Mother—"Husband, that shooter-tutor is too hard on the boy. The bows are too big and the lad is kept at his home-work so long and so late that his little arms are all lame and he doesn't sleep at night."
Father—"Oh, don't worry, mother, that'll be all right. The shooter ought to know his business."
Mother—"He may know his business, but he doesn't know our boy. You must speak to him about it."
In t”
- Shooting; hunting.“After Theodoric came the long night of war, and darkness, and devastation. Sixtus V., an able pontiff, furthered the projects of some of his better predecessors, but died of course in the middle of his work. Pope after pope that came after him projected and prated in their sleepy way. One formed a company, to drink the place dry, or some such thing, by a miraculous draught. But somehow or other no”