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clay pigeons


Identification code: 300217925



Alternative term/s

  • clay pigeon
  • pigeons, clay
  • skeet target

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Disc-like, saucer-shaped targets, about 4 1/2 inches in diameter and 1/2 inch thick hurled through the air from a trap in the sports of skeet and trapshooting; first developed in the 1860s and made of baked clay, now usually a mixture of river silt and pitch.

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