(n.) A scoop with a long handle, used to wash the sides of a vessel, and formerly to wet the sails or deck.
Example Sentences:
(1) Skeet shooter Amber Hill, who was 15 when she became the youngest winner of a senior World Cup event this year, won the Young Sports Personality of the Year award.
(2) Shotguns can easily propel pellets with enough energy to penetrate the human eye, and a large percentage of shotgun eye injuries occur during shotgun sports such as hunting, trap, skeet, and sporting clays.
(3) Mr Blair underlined this when he expressed his concern about the "dreadful case" of Mavis Skeet, whose operation for throat cancer was cancelled four times in five weeks because of bed shortages, adding that people should "retain some sense of balance".
(4) Asked if he had ever personally fired a gun, the president replied: "Yes, in fact, up at Camp David, we do skeet shooting all the time".
(5) Frankie Gavin squeaked by Bradley Skeete by scores of 116-112 and two of 116-113 to add the vacant Commonwealth welterweight title to the British championship, but there were a lot of close rounds in a contest that was enlivened only at the very end – first by a little scrap in the crowd before the start of the 12th round, then by the premature playing of the ring-walk music for the Saunders-Eubank fight.