A Target

A butt or mark to shoot at, as for practice, or to test the accuracy of a firearm, or the force of a projectile.
A goal or objective.
A kind of small shield or buckler, used as a defensive weapon in war.
(obsolete) A shield resembling the Roman scutum, larger than the modern buckler.
(heraldry) A bearing representing a buckler.
(sports) The pattern or arrangement of a series of hits made by a marksman on a butt or mark.
(surveying) The sliding crosspiece, or vane, on a leveling staff.
(rail transport) A conspicuous disk attached to a switch lever to show its position, or for use as a signal.
(cricket) the number of runs that the side batting last needs to score in the final innings in order to win
(linguistics) The tenor of a metaphor.
(translation studies) The translated version of a document, or the language into which translation occurs.
A person (or group of people) that a person or organization is trying to employ or to have as a customer, audience etc.
(Britain, dated) A thin cut; a slice; specifically, of lamb, a piece consisting of the neck and breast joints.
(Scotland, obsolete) A tassel or pendant.
(Scotland, obsolete) A shred; a tatter.