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Gunreach :: Gunreach (n.) The reach or distance to which a gun will shoot; gunshot.

Rasante :: Rasante (a.) Sweeping; grazing; -- applied to a style of fortification in which the command of the works over each other, and over the country, is kept very low, in order that the shot may more effectually sweep or graze the ground before them..

Unshot :: Unshot (a.) Not hit by a shot; also, not discharged or fired off..

Unshot :: Unshot (v. t.) To remove the shot from, as from a shotted gun; to unload..

Upshot :: Upshot (n.) Final issue; conclusion; the sum and substance; the end; the result; the consummation.

Shot :: Shot (v. t.) To load with shot, as a gun..

Sight-shot :: Sight-shot (n.) Distance to which the sight can reach or be thrown.

Mow :: Mow (v. t.) To cut down; to cause to fall in rows or masses, as in mowing grass; -- with down; as, a discharge of grapeshot mows down whole ranks of men..

Grapeshot :: Grapeshot (n.) A cluster, usually nine in number, of small iron balls, put together by means of cast-iron circular plates at top and bottom, with two rings, and a central connecting rod, in order to be used as a charge for a cannon. Formerly grapeshot were inclosed in canvas bags..

Wad :: Wad (n.) Specifically: A little mass of some soft or flexible material, such as hay, straw, tow, paper, or old rope yarn, used for retaining a charge of powder in a gun, or for keeping the powder and shot close; also, to diminish or avoid the effects of windage. Also, by extension, a dusk of felt, pasteboard, etc., serving a similar purpose..

Grape :: Grape (n.) Grapeshot.

Foreshot :: Foreshot (n.) In distillation of low wines, the first portion of spirit that comes over, being a fluid abounding in fusel oil..

Bracket :: Bracket (n.) A shot, crooked timber, resembling a knee, used as a support..

Shot :: Shot (pl. ) of Sho.

Pepper :: Pepper (v. t.) Figuratively: To shower shot or other missiles, or blows, upon; to pelt; to fill with shot, or cover with bruises or wounds..

Glancing :: Glancing (a.) Flying off (after striking) in an oblique direction; as, a glancing shot..

Dead :: Dead (a.) Sure as death; unerring; fixed; complete; as, a dead shot; a dead certainty..

Bombardment :: Bombardment (n.) An attack upon a fortress or fortified town, with shells, hot shot, rockets, etc.; the act of throwing bombs and shot into a town or fortified place..

Shote :: Shote (v. t.) A fish resembling the trout.

Pile :: Pile (n.) A mass formed in layers; as, a pile of shot..

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