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Point-blank   /pɔɪnt-blæŋk/   Listen
noun
Point-blank  n.  
1.
The white spot on a target, at which an arrow or other missile is aimed. (Obs.)
2.
(Mil.)
(a)
With all small arms, the second point in which the natural line of sight, when horizontal, cuts the trajectory.
(b)
With artillery, the point where the projectile first strikes the horizontal plane on which the gun stands, the axis of the piece being horizontal.


adjective
Point-blank  adj.  
1.
Directed in a line toward the object aimed at; aimed directly toward the mark.
2.
Hence, direct; plain; unqualified; said of language; as, a point-blank assertion.
Point-blank range, the extent of the apparent right line of a ball discharged.
Point-blank shot, the shot of a gun pointed directly toward the object to be hit.


adverb
Point-blank  adv.  In a point-blank manner. "To sin point-blank against God's word."





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"Point-blank" Quotes from Famous Books



... the author, which the work itself might fail to inspire. I sent him, therefore, the book, carefully sealed up, with an intimation that I requested the favour of his opinion upon the contents, of which I affected to talk in the depreciatory style, which calls for point-blank contradiction, if your correspondent possess a grain ...
— The Surgeon's Daughter • Sir Walter Scott
... had won over Captain Jim—if indeed that gentleman's alleged objections were not entirely the outcome of Bassett's fancy. The social paragraphs themselves were clumsy and vulgar. A dull-witted account of a select party at Parson Baxter's, with a point-blank compliment to Polly Baxter his daughter, might have made her pretty cheek burn but for her evident prepossession for the meretricious scamp, its writer. But even this horse-play seemed more natural than the utterly artificial editorials with their pinchbeck ...
— The Heritage of Dedlow Marsh and Other Tales • Bret Harte
... deep round oath Dan turned in his saddle, giving the horse the head, and leveling his rifle fired point-blank ...
— Jim Cummings • Frank Pinkerton
... immediately beneath Mme. Gougasse's comptoir, had straightway poured his grievances into a feminine ear and, figuratively speaking, rested his weary heart upon a feminine bosom. And his buffetings and grievances and wearinesses? Whence came they? I asked the question point-blank. ...
— The Joyous Adventures of Aristide Pujol • William J. Locke
... you come here?" Felix asked, half breathless, for the very magnitude of the stake at issue—no less a stake than Muriel's life—made him hesitate to put point-blank the question he had most at ...
— The Great Taboo • Grant Allen


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