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Definition of Telescope sight
1. Noun. Gunsight consisting of a telescope on a firearm for use as a sight.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Telescope Sight
Literary usage of Telescope sight
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proceedings of the United States Naval Institute by United States Naval Institute (1896)
"The latest form of telescope sight has a field of view of 19° in each direction,
with a magnification of about two (2) diameters, and is so strong as to be ..."
2. Recreation by George O. Shields, American Canoe Association, League of American Sportsmen (1902)
"I bought a telescope sight several years ago because a defect of my right eye
had made rifle shooting almost impossible to me. I selected a Malcolm No. ..."
3. The International Military Digest Annual by Cornélis De Witt Willcox (1917)
"The advantages of the telescope sight are that it acts like a field glass in picking
... The telescope sight for the new Springfield (US) is a good glass, ..."
4. Recreation by George O. Shields, American Canoe Association, League of American Sportsmen (1899)
"He who has never used a good telescope sight has never realized the full pleasures
to be had in shooting a rifle. It is a great pleasure to watch a ..."
5. The New International Encyclopædia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1903)
"In the telescope sight the cross-wire« are at the optical focus, ... The principal
objections urged against telescope sight» are their fragility and the ..."
6. The American Rifle: A Treatise, a Text Book, and a Book of Practical by Townsend Whelen (1918)
"A good telescope sight is quite expensive, and it is to a certain extent a ...
The telescope sight will be here considered primarily as an instrument with ..."
7. Text-book of Ordnance and Gunnery by William Freeland Fullam, Thomas Charles Hart (1905)
"It has been shown that with open-sights vertical visual errors are the more likely
to occur; since only the elevating pointer, using a telescope-sight, ..."
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