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longshoot en · NOUN

Etymology

From long + shoot.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) A type of dredger that ejects sand and sediment through a long stream.
   • The section includes also combination bucket and suction dredges, true suction dredgers, the Friihling dredge, the reclamation dredge, the longshoot dredge, the hopper barge, the self-propelling hopper, and the rock cutter. 1923, Marine Engineer and Naval Architect - Volume 46, page 162:
   • The working of the dredging machines improves every day, owing to the constant ameliorations in the various parts, and the increased experience of the crews; the conditions of labour have become much better now that the canal is open throughout its whole length, and that dredging is performed at greater depths; all the longshoot machines are intended to work night and day without intermission; the others, better and better served, will be able thenceforth to make longer days. 1869, The Economist - Volume 26, Issue 1 - Page 45:
   • They make a patent rockcutter fo excavating rock under water without explosives, bucket dredgers and suction dredgers of all types, suction hopper dredgers with Robinson cutter for clay, suction plant for pumping out barges alongside, longshoot dredgers, hopper barges of all kinds, gold, tin and platinum dredgers, dipper dredgers, sternwheel steamers, lighters and barges, floating plant of every description, either launched or in pieces for shipment, and spare parts or renewals for any of the above. 1928, Eastern Engineering [monthly]. - Volume 19, page 350:
2. (countable, uncountable) A long unbranching section of growth.
   • Some of this carbon may have been obtained at the expense of root and longshoot growth: the defoliated trees did not produce any longshoots, whereas the control trees did. 2006, Jan Hoogesteger, Tree ring dynamics in mountain birch, page 20:
   • It is likely that in future, standard meadow orchard applications will be with GA4/ 7 at 400 micrograms per ml painted on to buds with the potential to initiate strobili, at the time of longshoot differentiation. 1990, Proceedings from Reproductive Processes Working Party S2.01-5:
   • Leaves of vegetative shoots are alternate simple, deciduous; vegetative longshoot blades 2–9 cm long, 1.5–6 cm wide; broadly elliptic, ovate, or nearly orbicular, broadest at or below the middle; 2016, Burton V. Barnes, Christopher E Dick, Melanie Gunn, Michigan Shrubs and Vines: A Guide to Species of the Great Lakes Region, →ISBN:

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