sun-shot

plural sun-shots

1. alternativeAlternative 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

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   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

   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

comparative more sun-shot · superlative most sun-shot

1. alternativeAlternative form of sunshot.

   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

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   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

   “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