English

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Etymology

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From in +‎ shoot.

Noun

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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[1]:
      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[2]:
      Woods fooled him on a wide curve and a swift inshoot.

References

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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.

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Uzbek

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Arabic إِنْشَاءَات (ʔinšāʔāt), plural of إِنْشَاء (ʔinšāʔ).

Noun

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inshoot (plural inshootlar)

  1. building, construction

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