9. To protrude; to jut; to project; to extend; as, the land shoots
into a promontory.
There shot up against the dark sky, tall, gaunt, straggling houses.
Dickens.
10. (Naut.)
Defn: To move ahead by force of momentum, as a sailing vessel when the helm is put hard alee. To shoot ahead, to pass or move quickly forward; to outstrip others.
SHOOT
Shoot, n.
1. The act of shooting; the discharge of a missile; a shot; as, the
shoot of a shuttle.
The Turkish bow giveth a very forcible shoot. Bacon.
One underneath his horse to get a shoot doth stalk. Drayton.
2. A young branch or growth. Superfluous branches and shoots of this second spring. Evelyn.
3. A rush of water; a rapid.
4. (Min.)
Defn: A vein of ore running in the same general direction as the lode. Knight.
5. (Weaving)