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Blank :: Blank (n.) Aim; shot; range.

Aberration :: Aberration (n.) The producing of an unintended effect by the glancing of an instrument, as when a shot intended for A glances and strikes B..

Decoy :: Decoy (n.) A fowl, or the likeness of one, used by sportsmen to entice other fowl into a net or within shot..

Headmold Shot :: Headmold shot () Alt. of Headmould sho.

Parting :: Parting (v.) Given when departing; as, a parting shot; a parting salute..

Put :: Put (v. t.) To throw or cast with a pushing motion overhand, the hand being raised from the shoulder; a practice in athletics; as, to put the shot or weight..

Choke :: Choke (n.) A constriction in the bore of a shotgun, case of a rocket, etc..

Shot-clog :: Shot-clog (n.) A person tolerated only because he pays the shot, or reckoning, for the rest of the company, otherwise a mere clog on them..

Inscribe :: Inscribe (v. t.) To assign or address to; to commend to by a shot address; to dedicate informally; as, to inscribe an ode to a friend..

Tompion :: Tompion (n.) The iron bottom to which grapeshot are fixed.

Scot :: Scot (n.) A portion of money assessed or paid; a tax or contribution; a mulct; a fine; a shot.

Eyereach :: Eyereach (n.) The range or reach of the eye; eyeshot.

Cartouch :: Cartouch (n.) A wooden case filled with balls, to be shot from a cannon..

Range :: Range (v.) Sometimes, less properly, the trajectory of a shot or projectile..

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..

Headmould Shot :: Headmould shot () An old name for the condition of the skull, in which the bones ride, or are shot, over each other at the sutures..

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

Breastwheel :: Breastwheel (n.) A water wheel, on which the stream of water strikes neither so high as in the overshot wheel, nor so low as in the undershot, but generally at about half the height of the wheel, being kept in contact with it by the breasting. The water acts on the float boards partly by impulse, partly by its weight..

Shotted :: Shotted (imp. & p. p.) of Sho.

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