CLAY PIGEON

Meaning of CLAY PIGEON in English

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Clay pigeons are discs of baked clay which are thrown into the air by a machine as targets for gun shooting practice.

...hunting and clay-pigeon shooting.

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CLAY PIGEON — noun Date: 1888 a saucer-shaped target usually made of baked clay or limestone and pitch and thrown from a trap …
Толковый словарь английского языка - Merriam Webster
CLAY PIGEON — noun : a saucer-shaped target composed of baked clay and pitch or similar substances and thrown from a trap in …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
CLAY PIGEON — 1. Trapshooting , Skeet. a disk of baked clay or other material hurled into the air from a trap as …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
CLAY PIGEON — disk of baked clay hurled into the air as a target in skeet shooting and trapshooting
Толковый словарь английского языка - Редакция bed
CLAY PIGEON — Date: 1888 : a saucer-shaped target usually made of baked clay or limestone and pitch and thrown from a trap …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
CLAY PIGEON — Function: noun Date: 1888 : a saucer-shaped target usually made of baked clay or limestone and pitch and thrown from …
Merriam Webster Collegiate English Dictionary
CLAY PIGEON — ■ noun a saucer-shaped piece of baked clay or other material thrown up in the air from a trap as …
Concise Oxford English vocab
CLAY PIGEON — [clay pigeon] n (1888): a saucer-shaped target usu. made of baked clay or limestone and pitch and thrown from a …
Merriam-Webster English vocab
CLAY PIGEON — ( clay pigeons) Clay pigeons are discs of baked clay which are thrown into the air by a machine as …
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
CLAY PIGEON — {n.}, {slang}, {informal} 1. A popular target at practice shooting made of clay and roughly resembling a pigeon; an easy …
Slang English vocab
CLAY PIGEON — {n.}, {slang}, {informal} 1. A popular target at practice shooting made of clay and roughly resembling a pigeon; an easy …
Словарь английских идиом
CLAY PIGEON — n. , slang , informal 1. A popular target at practice shooting made of clay and roughly resembling a pigeon; …
American Idioms English vocabulary
CLAY PIGEON — мишень (в тире) (спортивное) тарелочка для стрельбы - clay-pigeon shooting стрельба по тарелочкам человек, которого легко обмануть или обидеть (сленг) …
Большой Англо-Русский словарь
CLAY PIGEON — 1. спорт. тарелочка для стрельбы clay-pigeon shooting - стрельба по тарелочкам 2. человек, которого легко обмануть или обидеть 3. сл. …
Англо-Русско-Английский словарь общей лексики - Сборник из лучших словарей
CLAY PIGEON — мишень (в тире)
Англо-Русский словарь Tiger
CLAY PIGEON — 1. спорт. тарелочка для стрельбы clay-pigeon shooting - стрельба по тарелочкам 2. человек, которого легко обмануть или обидеть 3. сл. …
Новый большой Англо-Русский словарь - Апресян, Медникова
CLAY PIGEON — 1. спорт. тарелочка для стрельбы clay-pigeon shooting - стрельба по тарелочкам 2. человек, которого легко обмануть или обидеть 3. сл. …
Большой новый Англо-Русский словарь
CLAY PIGEON — мишень
English-Russian-dictionary - Bed release
CLAY PIGEON — мишень
English-Russian-dictionary - Bed release
CLAY PIGEON — сущ. 1) спорт. тарелочка ( мишень для стрельбы ) - clay-pigeon shooting Syn: bird 2) сл. а) человек, которого легко …
Англо-Русский словарь по общей лексике
CLAY PIGEON — сущ. 1) спорт. тарелочка (мишень для стрельбы) - clay-pigeon shooting Syn: bird 2) сл. а) человек, которого легко обмануть или обидеть; беззащитный человек б) легкая задача, плевое …
Англо-Русский словарь общей лексики
CLAY PIGEON — мишень (в тире)
Англо-Русский словарь Мюллера - 24 редакция
CLAY PIGEON — мишень (в тире)
Англо-Русский словарь Мюллера - редакция bed
CLAY PIGEON — мишень (в тире)
Англо-Русский дополнительный словарь
CLAY PIGEON — 1) [спорт.] тарелочка для стрельбы claypigeon shooting стрельба по тарелочкам 2) человек, которого легко обмануть (или) обидеть 3) [сл.] лёгкая …
Morteza English-Russian Dictionary
CLAY PIGEON — 1) спорт. тарелочка для стрельбы, claypigeon shooting стрельба по тарелочкам; 2) человек, которого легко обмануть или обидеть; 3) сл. лёгкая …
Англо-Русский словарь - Королев
CLAY PIGEON — мишень (в тире) (спортивное) тарелочка для стрельбы - clay-pigeon shooting стрельба по тарелочкам человек, которого легко обмануть или обидеть (сленг) …
Новый большой Англо-Русский словарь
PIGEON — Plump, small-billed, monogamous birds of the family Columbidae, found almost worldwide and recognizable by their head-bobbing strut. Unlike other birds, …
Английский словарь Британика
CLAY — I 005 mm; also a material composed essentially of clay particles (see clay mineral ). In soils, clays provide the …
Английский словарь Британика
PIGEON — I. ˈpijən noun ( -s ) Etymology: Middle English pejon, pijon, pigeon, from Middle French pijon young bird, pigeon, from …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
CLAY — I. ˈklā noun ( -s ) Etymology: Middle English, from Old English clǣg; akin to Old Saxon klei clay, Middle …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
PIGEON — pigeon 1 /pij"euhn/ , n. 1. any bird of the family Columbidae, having a compact body and short legs, esp. …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
CLAY — clay 1 — claylike , adj. /klay/ , n. 1. a natural earthy material that is plastic when wet, consisting …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
PIGEON — I. ˈpi-jən noun Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French pygoun, pijun, from Late Latin pipion-, pipio young bird, from Latin pipire …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
PIGEON — noun an unsuspected victim of sharpers; a gull. 2. pigeon ·noun any bird of the order columbae, of which numerous …
Webster English vocab
CLAY — vt to cover or manure with clay. 2. clay ·vt to clarify by filtering through clay, as sugar. 3. clay …
Webster English vocab
CLAY — [clay] n, often attrib [ME, fr. OE claeg; akin to OHG kliwa bran, L gluten glue, MGk glia] (bef. 12c) …
Merriam-Webster English vocab
PIGEON — any of several hundred species of birds constituting the family Columbidae (order Columbiformes). Smaller forms are usually called doves, larger …
Britannica English vocabulary
CLAY — soil particles the diameters of which are less than 0.005 millimetre; also a rock that is composed essentially of clay …
Britannica English vocabulary
CLAY — clay, Clay BrE AmE kleɪ ▷ clays kleɪz ▶ ˌ clay ˈ pigeon, ˌ clay ˈ pigeon ˌ shooting BrE …
Longman Pronunciation English Dictionary
PIGEON — / ˈpɪdʒɪn; NAmE / noun a fat grey and white bird with short legs. Pigeons are common in cities and …
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
PIGEON — pi ‧ geon /ˈpɪdʒən, ˈpɪdʒɪn/ BrE AmE noun [ Date: 1300-1400 ; Language: Old French ; Origin: pijon , from …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
PIGEON — n. 1 any of several large usu. grey and white birds of the family Columbidae, esp. Columba livia, often domesticated …
Английский основной разговорный словарь
CLAY — n. 1 a stiff sticky earth, used for making bricks, pottery, ceramics, etc. 2 poet. the substance of the human …
Английский основной разговорный словарь
PIGEON — n. 1 any of several large usu. grey and white birds of the family Columbidae, esp. Columba livia, often domesticated …
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
CLAY — n. 1 a stiff sticky earth, used for making bricks, pottery, ceramics, etc. 2 poet. the substance of the human …
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
PIGEON — 1. n.1 any of several large usu. grey and white birds of the family Columbidae, esp. Columba livia, often domesticated …
Oxford English vocab
CLAY — n.1 a stiff sticky earth, used for making bricks, pottery, ceramics, etc. 2 poet. the substance of the human body. …
Oxford English vocab
PIGEON — ( pigeons) A pigeon is a bird, usually grey in colour, which has a fat body. Pigeons often live in …
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
CLAY — ( clays) 1. Clay is a kind of earth that is soft when it is wet and hard when it …
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
PIGEON — noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES carrier pigeon clay pigeon shooting homing pigeon COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ NOUN carrier ▪ The …
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
CLAY
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
PIGEON — [noun] - a large usually grey bird, which is often seen in towns sitting on buildings in large groups, and …
Cambridge English vocab
CLAY — [noun] [U] - thick heavy earth that is soft when wet and hard when dry or bakedClay is used for …
Cambridge English vocab
CLAY — n. Cassius Marcellus Clay clay mineral Clay Cassius Marcellus Clay Henry Clay Lucius DuBignon Frick Henry Clay
Britannica Concise Encyclopedia
CLAY — n. Soil particles with diameters less than 0. 005 mm; also a material composed essentially of clay particles (see clay …
Britannica Concise Encyclopedia
CLAY — Synonyms and related words : Adam, Hominidae, Homo sapiens, Missouri meerschaum, acres, alluvion, alluvium, anatomy, arable land, ashes, blubber, body, …
Moby Thesaurus English vocabulary
PIGEON — A weak silly fellow easily imposed on. To pigeon; to cheat. To milk the pigeon; to attempt impossibilities, to be …
Slang English vocab
CLAY — n. 25B6; noun the soil is mainly clay : EARTH, soil, loam. potter's clay : argil, china clay, kaolin, adobe, …
Concise Oxford Thesaurus English vocabulary
CLAY — As the sediment of water remaining in pits or in streets, the word is used frequently in the Old Testament. …
Smith's Bible English Dictionary
PIGEON — 1. сущ. 1) голубь Syn : dove 2) разг. простак, шляпа to pluck a pigeon ≈ обобрать простака 3) сл. …
Большой Англо-Русский словарь
CLAY — 1. сущ. 1) глина, глинозем clay mill ≈ глиномялка 2) земля, грязь, ил, тина (особ. земля, бросаемая на гроб при …
Большой Англо-Русский словарь
PIGEON — pigeon.ogg 1. ʹpıdʒın n 1. зоол. голубь ( Columba livia ) pigeon family - зоол. семейство голубиных ( Columbidae ) …
Англо-Русско-Английский словарь общей лексики - Сборник из лучших словарей
CLAY — clay.ogg 1. kleı n 1. глина, глинозём 2. ил, тина; грязь 3. возвыш. человеческое тело, плоть 4. поэт. прах 5. …
Англо-Русско-Английский словарь общей лексики - Сборник из лучших словарей

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