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sun-shot en · ADJ

Meanings

  1. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of sunshot.
    alt of sunshot
    • “You set right down now, baby,” he said, and he made a pretence of having something to do inside the mill, while June watched the creaking old wheel dropping the sun-shot sparkling water into the swift sluice, but hardly seeing it at all. 2010, John Fox Jr, The Trail of the Lonesome Pine:
    • To divert me I had only the Times, an article I was editing, and my own reflection, pensive and sleepy, framed in the sun-shot window. 1997, Robert Cohen, The Here and Now, page 15:
    • The day was fading into a soft sun-shot haze, pricked here and there by a yellow electric light, and passers were rare in the little square into which they had turned. 1920, Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence:

Forms

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most sun-shot Degree=Sup lexicographic
more sun-shot Degree=Cmp lexicographic

sun-shot en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of sun shot.
    alt of sun shot
    • At noon he was able to make his first sun-shot in all those weeks of sailing. 1999, Wilbur Smith, Monsoon: A Courtney Novel, page 10:
    • Even if I had an accurate time, which I have tried hard to get with no success, I could not take a sun-shot because of the fog. 2012, Francis Chichester, Alone Across The Atlantic:
    • Using sun-shots from the Kew pier, its true azimuth was determined in June 1957. 1985, P. A. Salino, Geomagnetic Measurements at Argentine Islands 1957-82:

Forms

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sun-shots Number=Plur lexicographic