shooting coat (shotingkot)

An outer coat commonly used by sportsmen, generally made of corduroy, dogskin, or duck, and containing one or more large inside pockets for holding game. Also called shooting - jacket. shooting-gallery (shö'ting-galer-i), n. Along room or gallery, having a target of some kind, and arranged for practice with firearms. shooting-iron (shö'ting-i"ėrn), n. A firearm, especially a revolver. [Slang, U. S.] Timothy hastily vaulted over the fence, drew his shoot ing - iron from his boot-leg, and, cocking it with a metallic click, sharp and peremptory in the keen wintry air,.. Harper's Mag ., LXXVI. 78. shooting-jacket (shö'ting-jak"et), n. A short and plain form of shooting-coat; in general, same as shooting - coat . Ainslie arrived in barracks. without uniforms, and without furniture, so he learned a good deal of his drill in a shooting - jacket. Whyte Melville , White Rose, I. xiii. shooting-needle (shö'ting-nē"dl), n. A blasting-needle; a metallic rod used in the tamping of a drill-hole, with the object of leaving a cavity through which the charge may be fired. It is kept in the hole while the tamping is being done, and withdrawn after that operation is completed. The general use of the safety-fuse has almost entirely done away with the old and more or le dangerous method in which the shooting-needle or pricker was employed. See needle , 3 (b). Also called nail .