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buckshot

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buck·shot  (bksht)
n.
A large lead shot for shotgun shells, used especially in hunting big game.
buckshot [ˈbʌkˌʃɒt]
n
(Military / Firearms, Gunnery, Ordnance & Artillery) lead shot of large size used in shotgun shells, esp for hunting game
[C15 (original sense: the distance at which a buck can be shot)]
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.buckshot - small lead shot for shotgun shells
bird shot, duck shot
pellet, shot - a solid missile discharged from a firearm; "the shot buzzed past his ear"
shotgun shell - a shell containing lead shot; used in shotguns
Translations
buckshot [ˈbʌkʃɒt] N → perdigón m, posta f
buckshot [ˈbʌkʃɒt] n → chevrotine f, chevrotines fpl
buckshot [ˈbʌkˌʃɒt] n → pallettoni mpl
buckshot [ˈbʌkˌʃɒt] n → pallettoni mpl


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It was too late to retreat: the fugitive felt that at the first movement back toward the wood he would be, as he afterward explained, "filled with buckshot.
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I watched again all last night in the same cover, gun in hand, double-charged with buckshot.
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I took him on the posteerum, saving the lady's presence, as he got up from the ambushment, and rattled three buckshot into his naked hide, so close that you might have laid a broad joe upon them all”—here Natty stretched out his long neck, and straightened his body, as he opened his mouth, which exposed a single tusk of yellow bone, while his eyes, his face, even his whole frame seemed to laugh, although no sound was emitted except a kind of thick hissing, as he inhaled his breath in quavers.
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