n. A form of trapshooting in which clay targets are thrown from traps to simulate birds in flight and are shot at from different stations. [Winning suggestion in a 1926 contest held by promoters to name the sport (then recently introduced), submitted by Gertrude Hurlbutt of Dayton, Montana, who derived it from a Scandinavian source such as Norwegian scyte, to shoot (from Old Norse skjōta; akin to English SHOOT).] |
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