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名詞

inshoot (plural inshoots)

1. The act of shooting or moving rapidly inward, as a baseball that is pitched with a curve.
   • 1906, Burt L. Standish, Frank Merriwell's Son‎:

     The pitcher started the ball wide, but, with a sudden break it took an inshoot across the plate.

   • 1898, Burt L. Standish, Frank Merriwell's Cruise‎:

     Woods fooled him on a wide curve and a swift inshoot.

参照

William Dwight Whitney and Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1914), “inshoot”, in The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language, revised edition, volumes III (Hoop–O), New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

アナグラム

• insooth, shootin'