dead-eye

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Boston charged out of halftime with a 23-8 run to open a 82-69 lead, sparked by Smart’s dead-eye shooting from beyond the arc.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 17, 2022

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

Then, Foley dropped a ball and Scotland nailed a scrum and Laidlaw's dead-eye put his team 13-5 ahead after the first quarter.

From BBC • Oct. 18, 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