MARKSMAN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does marksman mean? 

• MARKSMAN (noun)
  The noun MARKSMAN has 1 sense:

1. someone skilled in shooting

  Familiarity information: MARKSMAN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MARKSMAN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone skilled in shooting

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

crack shot; marksman; sharpshooter

Hypernyms ("marksman" is a kind of...):

shooter; shot (a person who shoots (usually with respect to their ability to shoot))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "marksman"):

deadeye (a dead shot)

franc-tireur (a sharpshooter (in the French army))

rifleman (someone skilled in the use of a rifle)

sniper (a marksman who shoots at people from a concealed place)

Instance hyponyms:

Annie Oakley; Oakley (United States sharpshooter who was featured in Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show (1860-1926))

Derivation:

marksmanship (skill in shooting)

 Context examples 

I will not say but that we have some good marksmen here, and that this Company would be accounted a fine body of archers at any time or place.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

At that instant Holmes sprang like a tiger on to the marksman’s back, and hurled him flat upon his face.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Several shots were fired, but such was the hurry of the marksmen that not one appears to have taken effect.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

“Tut, John,” whispered Aylward, “you never were a marksman. Why must you thrust your spoon into this dish?”

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

There was a day when, from Trent to Tweed, there was no better marksman than Robin Heathcot.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It would ill beseem me to claim to be a better marksman, answered Johnston, for I have heard great things of your skill.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

We have marksmen in the Company who will notch with a shaft every crevice and joint of a man-at-arm's harness, from the clasp of his bassinet to the hinge of his greave.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Beat high and low among the heather, and a pot of wine to the lucky marksman.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“But it seems to me that you have not yet shown yourself to be a better marksman than I, for I have struck that at which I aimed, and, by the three kings! no man can do more.”

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A deep-chested shout of delight burst from the archers at the sight of this double feat, and Aylward, dancing with joy, threw his arms round the old marksman and embraced him with such vigor that their mail tunics clanged again.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)