sun-shot

English

Noun

sun-shot (plural sun-shots)

1. Alternative form of sun shot
   • 1985, P. A. Salino, Geomagnetic Measurements at Argentine Islands 1957-82:

     Using sun-shots from the Kew pier, its true azimuth was determined in June 1957.

   • 1999, Wilbur Smith, Monsoon: A Courtney Novel, page 10:

     At noon he was able to make his first sun-shot in all those weeks of sailing.

   • 2012, Francis Chichester, Alone Across The Atlantic:

     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.

Adjective

sun-shot (comparative more sun-shot, superlative most sun-shot)

1. Alternative form of sunshot
   • 1920, Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence:

     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.

   • 1997, Robert Cohen, The Here and Now, page 15:

     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.

   • 2010, John Fox Jr, The Trail of the Lonesome Pine:

     “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.

Anagrams

• Hustons, Hutsons, unshots