SHOT, pret. and pp. of shoot.

SHOT, n.

1. The act of shooting; discharge of a missile weapon.

He caused twenty shot of his greatest cannon to be made at the king's army.

1. The act of shooting; discharge of a missile weapon. He caused twenty shot of his greatest cannon to be made at the king's army. Clarendon. Note. The plural shots, may be used, but shot is used in both numbers.
2. A missile weapon, particularly a ball or bullet. Shot is properly whatever is discharged from fire-arms or cannon by the force of gunpowder. Shot used in war is of various kinds; as, round shot or balls; those for cannon made of iron, those for muskets and pistols, of lead. Secondly, double headed shot or bar shot, consisting of a bar with a round head at each end. Thirdly, chain-shot, consisting of two balls chained together. Fourthly, grape-shot, consisting of a number of balls bound together with a cord in canvass on an iron bottom. Fifthly, case shot or canister shot, consisting of a great number of small bullets in a cylindrical tin box. Sixthly, langrel or langrage, which consists of pieces of iron of any kind or shape. Small shot, denotes musket balls. – Mar. Dict.
3. Small globular masses of lead, used for killing fowls and other small animals. These are not called balls or bullets.
4. The flight of a missile weapon, or the distance which it passes from the engine; as, a cannon shot; a musket shot; a pistol shot; a bow shot.
5. A reckoning; charge or proportional share of expense. [See Scot.] Shot of a cable, in seamen's language, the splising of two cables together; or the whole length of two cables thus united. A ship will ride easier in deep water with one shot of cable thus lengthened, than with three short cables. – Encyc.

1. imp. *** p. p. of Shoot.
2. Woven in such a way as to produce an effect of variegation, of changeable tints, or of being figured] as, shot silks. See Shoot, v. t., 8.
3. A share or proportion; a reckoning; a scot.
   
   

   Here no shots are where all shares be. Chapman.

   A man is never . . . welcome to a place till some certain shot be paid and the hostess say "Welcome." Shak.

4. The act of shooting; discharge of a firearm or other weapon which throws a missile.
   
   

   He caused twenty shot of his greatest cannon to be made at the king's army. Clarendon.

5. To load with shot, as a gun.
   
   
   Totten.
6. A cast of a net.
   
   
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7. A missile weapon, particularly a ball or bullet; specifically, whatever is discharged as a projectile from firearms or cannon by the force of an explosive.
   
   

   * Shot used in war is of various kinds, classified according to the material of which it is composed, into lead, wrought-iron, and cast-iron; according to form, into spherical and oblong; according to structure and modes of operation, into solid, hollow, and case. See Bar shot, Chain shot, etc., under Bar, Chain, etc.

8. A spherical weight, to be put, or thrown, in competition for distance.
9. Small globular masses of lead, of various sizes, -- used chiefly for killing game; as, bird shot; buckshot.
10. A stroke or propulsive action in certain games, as in billiards, hockey, curling, etc.; also, a move, as in chess.
11. The flight of a missile, or the distance which it is, or can be, thrown; as, the vessel was distant more than a cannon shot.
12. A guess; conjecture; also, an attempt.
    
    
    [Colloq.]
13. A marksman; one who practices shooting; as, an exellent shot.
    
    

    Shot belt, a belt having a pouch or compartment for carrying shot. -- Shot cartridge, a cartridge containing powder and small shot, forming a charge for a shotgun. -- Shot garland (Naut.), a wooden frame to contain shot, secured to the coamings and ledges round the hatchways of a ship. -- Shot gauge, an instrument for measuring the diameter of round shot. Totten. -- shot hole, a hole made by a shot or bullet discharged. - - Shot locker (Naut.), a strongly framed compartment in the hold of a vessel, for containing shot. -- Shot of a cable (Naut.), the splicing of two or more cables together, or the whole length of the cables thus united. -- Shot prop (Naut.), a wooden prop covered with tarred hemp, to stop a hole made by the shot of an enemy in a ship's side. -- Shot tower, a lofty tower for making shot, by dropping from its summit melted lead in slender streams. The lead forms spherical drops which cool in the descent, and are received in water or other liquid. -- Shot window, a window projecting from the wall. Ritson, quoted by Halliwell, explains it as a window that opens and shuts; and Wodrow describes it as a window of shutters made of timber and a few inches of glass above them.