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9. To protrude; to jut; to project; to extend; as, the land shoots into a promontory.
There shot up against the dark sky, tall, gaunt, straggling houses. Dickens. 10. (Naut.) To move ahead by force of momentum, as a sailing vessel when the helm is put hard alee.
To shoot ahead, to pass or move quickly forward; to outstrip others.
Shoot
(Shoot), n.
1. The act of shooting; the discharge of a missile; a shot; as, the shoot of a shuttle.
The Turkish bow giveth a very forcible shoot. Bacon.
One underneath his horse to get a shoot doth stalk. Drayton. 2. A young branch or growth.
Superfluous branches and shoots of this second spring. Evelyn. 3. A rush of water; a rapid.
4. (Min.) A vein of ore running in the same general direction as the lode. Knight.
5. (Weaving) A weft thread shot through the shed by the shuttle; a pick.
6. [Perh. a different word.] A shoat; a young hog.
Shooter
(Shoot"er) n.
1. One who shoots, as an archer or a gunner.
2. That which shoots. Specifically: (a) A firearm; as, a five-shooter. [Colloq. U.S.] (b) A shooting star.
[R.]
Shooting
(Shoot"ing), n.
1. The act of one who, or that which, shoots; as, the shooting of an archery club; the shooting of rays of
light.
2. A wounding or killing with a firearm; specifically (Sporting), the killing of game; as, a week of shooting.
3. A sensation of darting pain; as, a shooting in one's head.
Shooting
(Shoot"ing), a. Of or pertaining to shooting; for shooting; darting.
Shooting board (Joinery), a fixture used in planing or shooting the edge of a board, by means of
which the plane is guided and the board held true. — Shooting box, a small house in the country
for use in the shooting season. Prof. Wilson. — Shooting gallery, a range, usually covered, with
targets for practice with firearms. — Shooting iron, a firearm. [Slang, U.S.] — Shooting star. (a)
(Astron.) A starlike, luminous meteor, that, appearing suddenly, darts quickly across some portion of
the sky, and then as suddenly disappears, leaving sometimes, for a few seconds, a luminous train, —
called also falling star. Shooting stars are small cosmical bodies which encounter the earth in its
annual revolution, and which become visible by coming with planetary velocity into the upper regions
of the atmosphere. At certain periods, as on the 13th of November and 10th of August, they appear
for a few hours in great numbers, apparently diverging from some point in the heavens, such displays
being known as meteoric showers, or star showers. These bodies, before encountering the earth,
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