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Canister :: Canister (n.) A kind of case shot for cannon, in which a number of lead or iron balls in layers are inclosed in a case fitting the gun; -- called also canister shot..

Perrier :: Perrier (n.) A short mortar used formerly for throwing stone shot.

Overshot :: Overshot (imp. & p. p.) of Overshoo.

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

Riddle :: Riddle (v. t.) To perforate so as to make like a riddle; to make many holes in; as, a house riddled with shot..

Shotten :: Shotten (n.) Having ejected the spawn; as, a shotten herring..

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..

Bombard :: Bombard (v. t.) To attack with bombards or with artillery; especially, to throw shells, hot shot, etc., at or into..

Antithesis :: Antithesis (n.) An opposition or contrast of words or sentiments occurring in the same sentence; as, The prodigal robs his heir; the miser robs himself. He had covertly shot at Cromwell; he how openly aimed at the Queen..

Artillery :: Artillery (n.) Cannon; great guns; ordnance, including guns, mortars, howitzers, etc., with their equipment of carriages, balls, bombs, and shot of all kinds..

Pool :: Pool (n.) In rifle shooting, a contest in which each competitor pays a certain sum for every shot he makes, the net proceeds being divided among the winners..

Shot :: Shot (n.) 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..

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..

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

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

Outer :: Outer (n.) A shot which strikes the outer of a target.

Shot :: Shot (a.) 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..

Gunshot :: Gunshot (n.) Act of firing a gun; a shot.

Nab :: Nab (n.) The keeper, or box into which the lock is shot..

Putting :: Putting (n.) The throwing of a heavy stone, shot, etc., with the hand raised or extended from the shoulder; -- originally, a Scottish game..

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