(n) :
(Armor) A kind of smallshield or buckler, used as a defensiveweapon in war; (Armor) (Obsolete) A shield resembling the Romanscutum. In modern usage, a smaller variety of shield is usually implied by this term
"1598: These four came all afront, and mainly thrust at me. I made me no more ado but took all their seven points in my target, thus. — William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part I, Act II, Scene IV, line 200."
(v) :
to aim something (especially a weapon) at a target
(n) :
(Armor) A kind of smallshield or buckler, used as a defensiveweapon in war; (Armor) (Obsolete) A shield resembling the Romanscutum. In modern usage, a smaller variety of shield is usually implied by this term
"1598: These four came all afront, and mainly thrust at me. I made me no more ado but took all their seven points in my target, thus. — William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part I, Act II, Scene IV, line 200."
(v) :
to aim something (especially a weapon) at a target