dead-eye

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Nissanka and Karunaratne ran well until the latter was sold short by a tight single and Stone's dead-eye throw.

From BBC • Sep. 7, 2024

Finding a way to tamp down Clark’s prodigious output is a tough ask made harder by the fact she has complementary players around her such as center Monika Czinano and dead-eye shooter McKenna Warnock.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 30, 2022

He was a dead-eye long-range shooter in pickup basketball.

From Golf Digest • Jul. 25, 2019

Then he takes a single, and India finally hit the stumps, with a dead-eye throw from Jadeja, but this time Fakhar is well in.

From The Guardian • Jun. 18, 2017

A piece of iron used instead of a chain to confine the dead-eye of the backstay to the after-channel.—Foot-hook or futtock plates.

From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Belcher, Edward, Sir