shootery

Noun

shootery (usually uncountable, plural shooteries)

1. (uncommon, usually) Synonym of marksmanship (“the art of shooting”).
   • Come, girls, there's rumoured war, so practice archery,
     And drill yourselves in shootery and marchery;
     And if you think you'd like to have a colonel, one
     You'll find in me, [illegible]. —The Office Boy's Maternal One.1883 July 25, “Events of the Week. By the Office Boy's Mother”, in Judy, or the London Serio-Comic Journal, volume 33, page 37

   Synonyms:

   marksmanship

2. (countable, uncommon, usually) Synonym of shooting range (“a place to practice marksmanship”).
   • Mother—"Husband, that shooter-tutor is too hard on the boy. The bows are too big and the lad is kept at his home-work so long and so late that his little arms are all lame and he doesn't sleep at night."
     Father—"Oh, don't worry, mother, that'll be all right. The shooter ought to know his...1912, Proceedings of the New Jersey Conference of Charities and Correction. Eleventh Annual Meeting, Orange, New Jersey, March 24th, 25th, and 26th, 1912, Trenton, New Jersey: MacCrellish and...

   Synonyms:

   shooting range

3. (uncommon, usually) Shooting; hunting.
   • After Theodoric came the long night of war, and darkness, and devastation. Sixtus V., an able pontiff, furthered the projects of some of his better predecessors, but died of course in the middle of his work. Pope after pope that came after him projected and prated in their sleepy way. One formed a...1837, “Leaves from the journal of a traveller”, in The Metropolitan Magazine, volume 20, number September-December, page 76