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Definition of Open sight
1. Noun. Rear gunsight having an open notch instead of a peephole or telescope.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Open Sight
Literary usage of Open sight
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Recreation by George O. Shields, American Canoe Association, League of American Sportsmen (1899)
"Furthermore, these peep and globe sights require a better light than the open
sight docs and frequently, in heavy timber or in the twilight, an open sight ..."
2. Privates' Manual by James Alfred Moss (1916)
"With the open sight the line of sight is determined by a point on the middle line
of the notch of the rear sight and the top of the front sight. ..."
3. A Handbook of the Petroleum Industry by David Talbot Day (1922)
"Looking through the open sight and the hole near the base of the mirror at a
point up or down the slope, which is as high above the ground as your eye, ..."
4. Privates' Manual by James Alfred Moss (1916)
"With the open sight the line of sight is determined by a point on the middle line
of the notch of the rear sight and the top of the front sight. ..."
5. Naval Ordnance: A Text-book Prepared for the Use of the Midshipmen of the by Roland Irvin Curtin, Thomas Lee Johnson, United States Naval Academy (1915)
"The open sight is the earliest and least efficient arrangement of the ...
The chief defect in the open sight lies in the fact that the eye cannot ..."
6. The American Rifle: A Treatise, a Text Book, and a Book of Practical by Townsend Whelen (1918)
"The Model 1902 rear sight is milar to the Model 1898, but the eye-piece has but
one open sight otch, and also has a peep plate which may be snapped into ..."
7. Manual of Military Training by James Alfred Moss (1917)
"With the open sight the line of sight is determined by a point on the middle line of
... By open sight is meant the use of any one of the sighting notches. ..."
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