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stone shoot

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noun

  1. mountaineering a long steeply sloping line of loose boulder-strewn scree

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The ground now got very bad, and presently we came to a stone shoot which extended high up above us, while ending in a cliff a little below.

From With Kelly to Chitral by Beynon, William George Laurence

On the arrival of the Punyal Levies, they were to start, with a guide we had procured, to turn out the men above the stone shoot on the right bank of the river.

From With Kelly to Chitral by Beynon, William George Laurence

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