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Peep sight   /pip saɪt/   Listen
Peep sight

noun
1.
Rear gunsight having an adjustable eyepiece with a small aperture through which the front sight and the target are aligned.





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"Peep sight" Quotes from Famous Books



... Another miss! How that gobbler ran! He might just as well have flown. Every turkey contrived to get a tree or bush between him and me, just at the critical instant. In despair I tried to hold on the last one, got a bead on it through my peep sight, moved it with him as we moved, and holding tight, I fired. With a great flop and scattering of bronze feathers he went down. I ran up the slope and secured him, a fine gobbler ...
— Tales of lonely trails • Zane Grey
... seldom used. The open sight at the bottom of the triangular opening in the drift slide is adjustable from 100 to 2,450 yards. To set it the index line at the lower corners of the triangle is set opposite the range graduation on the leaf and the slide clamped. This and the peep sight just below it are the sights most commonly used. To set the peep sight, the index lines on either side of the peephole are set opposite the range desired and the ...
— Manual for Noncommissioned Officers and Privates of Infantry • War Department
... jeered old man Adams tremulously. "Clap your peep sight on that, Hap Smith. Poh at me, will you?" and close up to the driver's eyes he thrust the road house register with its newly pencilled inscription so close that Hap Smith dodged and was some ...
— Six Feet Four • Jackson Gregory


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