"clay pigeon" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "The term is a remnant of the history of trap shooting. Originally, live pigeons were used as targets, but they were gradually replaced with clay disks and ultimately banned. Later, clay was replaced with more suitable raw materials.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "clay pigeons",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "expansion": "clay pigeon (plural clay pigeons)",
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    }
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
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        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Gun sports",
          "orig": "en:Gun sports",
          "parents": [
            "Firearms",
            "Sports",
            "Weapons",
            "Human activity",
            "Hunting",
            "Military",
            "Tools",
            "Human behaviour",
            "Society",
            "Technology",
            "Human",
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            "Fundamental"
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        }
      ],
      "derived": [
        {
          "word": "clay pigeon shooting"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A flying target, usually a disc, made of a mixture of pitch and pulverized limestone rock, used as moving target in sport shooting."
      ],
      "id": "en-clay_pigeon-en-noun-nK6aij5m",
      "links": [
        [
          "target",
          "target"
        ],
        [
          "disc",
          "disc"
        ],
        [
          "mixture",
          "mixture"
        ],
        [
          "pitch",
          "pitch"
        ],
        [
          "limestone",
          "limestone"
        ]
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "clay target shooting"
        },
        {
          "word": "skeet"
        },
        {
          "word": "skeet shooting"
        },
        {
          "word": "sporting clays"
        },
        {
          "word": "trap"
        },
        {
          "word": "trapshooting"
        },
        {
          "word": "trap shooting"
        }
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "clay target"
        }
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "da",
          "lang": "Danish",
          "sense": "target in sport shooting",
          "tags": [
            "common-gender"
          ],
          "word": "lerdue"
        },
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "target in sport shooting",
          "word": "savikiekko"
        },
        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "target in sport shooting",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "Tontaube"
        },
        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "target in sport shooting",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "Wurftaube"
        },
        {
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "target in sport shooting",
          "word": "piattello"
        },
        {
          "code": "nb",
          "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
          "sense": "target in sport shooting",
          "tags": [
            "feminine",
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "leirdue"
        },
        {
          "code": "nb",
          "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
          "sense": "target in sport shooting",
          "tags": [
            "feminine",
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "due"
        },
        {
          "code": "nn",
          "lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
          "sense": "target in sport shooting",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "leirdue"
        },
        {
          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "target in sport shooting",
          "tags": [
            "common-gender"
          ],
          "word": "lerduva"
        }
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "clay pigeon"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "clay pigeon"
}

{
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "clay pigeon shooting"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "The term is a remnant of the history of trap shooting. Originally, live pigeons were used as targets, but they were gradually replaced with clay disks and ultimately banned. Later, clay was replaced with more suitable raw materials.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "clay pigeons",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
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      "expansion": "clay pigeon (plural clay pigeons)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "clay target shooting"
    },
    {
      "word": "skeet"
    },
    {
      "word": "skeet shooting"
    },
    {
      "word": "sporting clays"
    },
    {
      "word": "trap"
    },
    {
      "word": "trapshooting"
    },
    {
      "word": "trap shooting"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
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        "en:Gun sports"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A flying target, usually a disc, made of a mixture of pitch and pulverized limestone rock, used as moving target in sport shooting."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "target",
          "target"
        ],
        [
          "disc",
          "disc"
        ],
        [
          "mixture",
          "mixture"
        ],
        [
          "pitch",
          "pitch"
        ],
        [
          "limestone",
          "limestone"
        ]
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "clay pigeon"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "clay target"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "target in sport shooting",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "lerdue"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "target in sport shooting",
      "word": "savikiekko"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "target in sport shooting",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Tontaube"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "target in sport shooting",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Wurftaube"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "target in sport shooting",
      "word": "piattello"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "target in sport shooting",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "leirdue"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "target in sport shooting",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "due"
    },
    {
      "code": "nn",
      "lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
      "sense": "target in sport shooting",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "leirdue"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "target in sport shooting",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "lerduva"
    }
  ],
  "word": "clay pigeon"
}