sniper

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1n. — Placer Mining

a person who snipes.

Quotations

1963

The sniper then takes over, cleaning and scraping pockets and even rewashing old boulder-piles.

1966

. . . the bars had been left for the sniper to work in his slow, laborious way for whatever he could make.

2n. — Lumbering, Hist.

See 1956 quote.

1906

"He ought to be chased out of the woods," said Jim, the sniper.

1956

These were . . . snipers who shaped the butt ends so they [logs] wouldn't hang up on the skids. . . .