Definition of shoot

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Shoot (n.) A young branch or growth.

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Shoot :: Shoot (n.) 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, connecting the ends of a bend in the stream, so as to shorten the course..
Watershoot :: Watershoot (n.) A sprig or shoot from the root or stock of a tree.
Turio :: Turio (n.) A shoot or sprout from the ground.
Decoy :: Decoy (n.) A place into which wild fowl, esp. ducks, are enticed in order to take or shoot them..
Protrude :: Protrude (v. i.) To shoot out or forth; to be thrust forward; to extend beyond a limit; to project.
Bud :: Bud (v. i.) To put forth or produce buds, as a plant; to grow, as a bud does, into a flower or shoot..
Chit :: Chit (v. i.) To shoot out; to sprout.
Twiggy :: Twiggy (a.) Of or pertaining to a twig or twigs; like a twig or twigs; full of twigs; abounding with shoots.
Graft :: Graft (n.) A branch or portion of a tree growing from such a shoot.
Pistol :: Pistol (v. t.) To shoot with a pistol.
Bird :: Bird (v. i.) To catch or shoot birds.
Shoot :: Shoot (v. i.) To change form suddenly; especially, to solidify..
Chit :: Chit (n.) The embryo or the growing bud of a plant; a shoot; a sprout; as, the chits of Indian corn or of potatoes..
Twig :: Twig (n.) A small shoot or branch of a tree or other plant, of no definite length or size..
Overshoot :: Overshoot (v. t.) To pass swiftly over; to fly beyond.
Sprout :: Sprout (v. i.) The shoot of a plant; a shoot from the seed, from the stump, or from the root or tuber, of a plant or tree; more rarely, a shoot from the stem of a plant, or the end of a branch..
Flagellum :: Flagellum (v. t.) A young, flexible shoot of a plant; esp., the long trailing branch of a vine, or a slender branch in certain mosses..
Straggle :: Straggle (v. t.) To escape or stretch beyond proper limits, as the branches of a plant; to spread widely apart; to shoot too far or widely in growth..
Shoot :: Shoot (n.) A shoat; a young hog.
Stabling :: Stable stand () The position of a man who is found at his standing in the forest, with a crossbow or a longbow bent, ready to shoot at a deer, or close by a tree with greyhounds in a leash ready to slip; -- one of the four presumptions that a man intends stealing the king's deer..
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