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sun-shot en · ADJ
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(alt-of, alternative) Alternative form 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:
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sun-shot en · NOUN
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(alt-of, alternative) Alternative form 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:
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