dead-eye
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Nissanka and Karunaratne ran well until the latter was sold short by a tight single and Stone's dead-eye throw.
From BBC • Sep. 7, 2024
He was a dead-eye long-range shooter in pickup basketball.
From Golf Digest • Jul. 25, 2019
Then he takes a single, and India finally hit the stumps, with a dead-eye throw from Jadeja, but this time Fakhar is well in.
From The Guardian • Jun. 18, 2017
"That game changed basketball forever," said Lynn Shackelford, a dead-eye shooter for the Bruins in 1968.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 26, 2015
Also, a rope formerly fast to the fore-mast fore-shrouds, with a dead-eye to receive the spritsail-sheet-pendant, and keep the spritsail-sheets clear of the flukes of the anchor.
From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Belcher, Edward, Sir
