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Buckshot :: Buckshot (n.) A coarse leaden shot, larger than swan shot, used in hunting deer and large game..

Tell :: Tell (v. i.) To take effect; to produce a marked effect; as, every shot tells; every expression tells..

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

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

Grape :: Grape (n.) Grapeshot.

Projectile :: Projectile (n.) A body projected, or impelled forward, by force; especially, a missile adapted to be shot from a firearm..

Issue :: Issue (n.) The final outcome or result; upshot; conclusion; event; hence, contest; test; trial..

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

Key :: Key (n.) An instrument by means of which the bolt of a lock is shot or drawn; usually, a removable metal instrument fitted to the mechanism of a particular lock and operated by turning in its place..

Choke :: Choke (v. t.) To make a choke, as in a cartridge, or in the bore of the barrel of a shotgun..

Shot-free :: Shot-free (a.) Free from charge or expense; hence, unpunished; scot-free..

Aspic :: Aspic (n.) A piece of ordnance carrying a 12 pound shot.

Hailshot :: Hailshot (n. pl.) Small shot which scatter like hailstones.

Midrashoth :: Midrashoth (pl. ) of Midras.

Drop :: Drop (n.) That which resembles, or that which hangs like, a liquid drop; as a hanging diamond ornament, an earring, a glass pendant on a chandelier, a sugarplum (sometimes medicated), or a kind of shot or slug..

Water Wheel :: Water wheel () Any wheel for propelling machinery or for other purposes, that is made to rotate by the direct action of water; -- called an overshot wheel when the water is applied at the top, an undershot wheel when at the bottom, a breast wheel when at an intermediate point; other forms are called reaction wheel, vortex wheel, turbine wheel, etc..

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..

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

Shotted :: Shotted (a.) Loaded with shot.

Cupola :: Cupola (n.) A revolving shot-proof turret for heavy ordnance.

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