Word Meanings - UPSHOOT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To shoot upward. "Trees upshooting high." Spenser.

Related words: (words related to UPSHOOT)

• SHOOTING
  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 , the killing of game; as, a week of shooting. 3. A sensation of darting pain;
• SHOOT
  An inclined plane, either artificial or natural, down which timber, coal, etc., are caused to slide; also, a narrow passage, either natural or artificial, in a stream, where the water rushes rapidly; esp., a channel, having a swift current,
• SHOOTER
  1. One who shoots, as an archer or a gunner. 2. That which shoots. Specifically: A firearm; as, a five-shooter. A shooting star.
• UPSHOOT
  To shoot upward. "Trees upshooting high." Spenser.
• SPENSERIAN
  Of or pertaining to the English poet Spenser; -- specifically applied to the stanza used in his poem "The Faërie Queene."
• UPWARD; UPWARDS
  1. In a direction from lower to higher; toward a higher place; in a course toward the source or origin; -- opposed to downward; as, to tend or roll upward. I. Watts. Looking inward, we are stricken dumb; looking upward, we speak and prevail.
• UPWARD
  Directed toward a higher place; as, with upward eye; with upward course.
• SHOOTY
  Sprouting or coming up freely and regularly. Grose.
• OVERSHOOT
  1. To shoot over or beyond. "Not to overshoot his game." South. 2. To pass swiftly over; to fly beyond. Hartle. 3. To exceed; as, to overshoot the truth. Cowper. To overshoot one's self, to venture too far; to assert too much.
• TRAP SHOOTING
  Shooting at pigeons liberated, or glass balls or clay pigeons sprung into the air, from a trap. -- Trap shooter.
• OUTSHOOT
  To exceed or excel in shooting; to shoot beyond. Bacon. Men are resolved never to outshoot their forefathers' mark. Norris.
• DISPENSER
  One who, or that which, dispenses; a distributer; as, a dispenser of favors.
• UNDERSHOOT
  To shoot short of .
• SIX-SHOOTER
  A pistol or other firearm which can be fired six times without reloading especially, a six-chambered revolver.
• SEVEN-SHOOTER
  A firearm, esp. a pistol, with seven barrels or chambers for cartridges, or one capable of firing seven shots without reloading.
• PLASHOOT
  A hedge or fence formed of branches of trees interlaced, or plashed. Carew.
• OFFSHOOT
  That which shoots off or separates from a main stem, channel, family, race, etc.; as, the offshoots of a tree.
• CROSSTREES
  Pieces of timber at a masthead, to which are attached the upper shrouds. At the head of lower masts in large vessels, they support a semicircular platform called the "top."
• CRAP SHOOTING
  See CRAPS
• WATERSHOOT
  That which serves to guard from falling water; a drip or dripstone. 3. A trough for discharging water. (more info) 1. A sprig or shoot from the root or stock of a tree.
• STARSHOOT
  See NOSTOC
• SHARPSHOOTING
  A shooting with great precision and effect; hence, a keen contest of wit or argument.
• SHARPSHOOTER
  One skilled in shooting at an object with exactness; a good marksman.