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Webster 1828 Edition

ppr.

Pointing a weapon at an object; directing any thing to an object; intending; purposing.

aiming

aiming ‎(plural aimings)

The act of one who aims.
- 1867, William Hickman Smith Aubrey, The National and Domestic History of England
  The aimings after the impossible, represented by the Uniformity Act of 1549, had failed […]