slung-shot

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• Slung

  ·- imp. & ·p.p. of Sling. II. Slung ·Impf of <<Sling>>. III. Slung ·p.p. of <<Sling>>. ...

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• slung

  (the pret. of sling), is often heard instead of swung. We swung round the wharf; and when the capta...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• Shot

  ·pl of Shot. II. Shot ·- imp. & ·p.p. of Shoot. III. Shot ·vt To load with shot, as a gun. IV. Sh...

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• shot

  To pay one's shot; to pay one's share of a reckoning. Shot betwixt wind and water; poxed or clapped....

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• shot

  Another pronunciation of the word scot, a reckoning. As the fund of our pleasure, let each pay his ...

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• shot

  All sorts of missiles to be discharged from fire-arms, those for great guns being mainly of iron; fo...

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• Anchor shot

  ·add. ·- A shot made with the object balls in an anchor space. ...

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• Burrel shot

  ·- A mixture of shot, nails, stones, pieces of old iron, ·etc., fired from a cannon at short range, ...

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• Case shot

  ·- A collection of small projectiles, inclosed in a case or canister. ...

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• Flight-shot

  ·noun The distance to which an arrow or flight may be shot; bowshot, — about the fifth of a mile. ...

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• Headmold shot

  ·- ·Alt. of Headmould shot. ...

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• Headmould shot

  ·- An old name for the condition of the skull, in which the bones ride, or are shot, over each other...

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• Masse shot

  ·noun A stroke made with the cue held vertically. ...

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• Pot shot

  ·add. ·- Lit., a shot fired simply to fill the pot; hence, a shot fired at an animal or person when ...

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• Shot samples

  ·add. ·- Samples taken for assay from a molten metallic mass pouring a portion into water, to granul...

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• Shot-clog

  ·noun A person tolerated only because he pays the shot, or reckoning, for the rest of the company, o...

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• Shot-free

  ·adj Not to be injured by shot; shot-proof. II. Shot-free ·adj Free from charge or expense; hence, ...

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• Shot-proof

  ·adj Impenetrable by shot. ...

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• Sight-shot

  ·noun Distance to which the sight can reach or be thrown. ...

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• Snap shot

  ·add. ·- Act of taking a snapshot (in sense 2). II. Snap shot ·add. ·- A quick offhand shot, made w...

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• Split shot

  ·add. ·- ·Alt. of Split stroke. ...

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• cup-shot

  Drunk. ...

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• buck-shot

  n. a settlers' term for ageological formation. See quotation. 1851. `The Australasian Quarterly,' ...

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• shanghai-shot

  n. a short distance,a stone's-throw. 1874. Garnet Walch, `Head over Heels' [Introduction toTottlep...

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• by a long shot

  By a long way; by a great deal. Mr. Divver offered a resolution summarily removing the superintende...

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• shot-flagon

  the host's pot, given where the guests have drank above a shilling's worth of ale. Derb. ...

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• angel-shot

  A ball cut in two, and the halves joined by a chain. ...

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• canister shot

  See case-shot, common. ...

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• chain-shot

  Two balls connected either by a bar or chain, for cutting and destroying the spars and rigging of an...

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• chilled shot

  Shot of very rapidly cooled cast-iron, i.e. cast in iron moulds, and thus found to acquire a hardnes...

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• ear-shot

  The distance or range of hearing. ...

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• eye-shot

  Within sight. ...

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• fresh shot

  A river swollen by rain or tributaries; it also signifies the falling down of any great river into t...

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• gun-shot

  Formerly, the distance up to which a gun would throw a shot direct to its mark, without added elevat...

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• hail-shot

  Small shot for cannon. ...

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• hollow shot

  Introduced principally for naval use before the horizontal firing of shells from guns became general...

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• hot-shot

  Balls made red-hot in a furnace. Amongst the savages in Bergou, the women are in the rear of the com...

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• long-shot

  A distant range. It is also used to express a long way; a far-fetched explanation; something incredi...

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• musket-shot

  Was the computed distance of 400 yards, now undergoing change. ...

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• random shot

  A shot, or coup perdu, made when the muzzle is highly elevated; the utmost range may be at an angle ...

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• round shot

  The cast-iron balls fitting the bores of their respective guns, as distinguished from grape or other...

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• sand-shot

  Those cast in moulds of sand, when economy is of more importance than form or hardness; the small ba...

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• shot-locker

  A compartment built up in the hold to contain the shot. ...

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• shot-net

  A mackerel-net. ...

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• shot-plugs

  Tapered cones to stop any sized shot-hole. ...

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• shot-racks

  Wooden frames fixed at convenient distances to contain shot. There are also, of recent introductio...

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• spent shot

  A shot that has lost its penetrative velocity, yet capable of inflicting grave injury as long as it ...

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• tier-shot

  That kind of grapeshot which is secured in tiers by parallel iron discs. ...

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• trundle-shot

  An iron bolt 16 or 18 inches long, with sharp points, and a ball of lead just inside each head. ...

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• quarter-shot

  See water-shot ...

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• water-shot

  , or quarter-shot. When a ship is moored, neither across the tide, nor right up and down, but quar...

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• case-shot, common

  Called also canister-shot. Adapted for close quarters if the enemy be uncovered. It consists of a nu...

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• cross-bar-shot

  The famed cross-bar-shot, or properly bar-shot, used by the Americans: when folded it presented a ba...

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• double-headed shot

  Differing from bar-shot by being similar to dumb-bells, only the shot are hemispherical. ...

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• spherical case-shot

  See shrapnel shell. ...

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• shot in the neck

  Drunk. A Southern phrase. ...

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• throw of the shot

  See dispart of the shot ...

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• dispart, or throw of the shot

  The difference between the semi-diameter of the base-ring at the breech of a gun, and that of the ri...

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• flight of a shot

  The trajectory formed between the muzzle of the gun and the first graze. ...

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• moor quarter-shot, to

  To moor quartering, between the two ways of across and along. ...

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