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

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

Calipers :: Calipers (n. pl.) An instrument, usually resembling a pair of dividers or compasses with curved legs, for measuring the diameter or thickness of bodies, as of work shaped in a lathe or planer, timber, masts, shot, etc.; or the bore of firearms, tubes, etc.; -- called also caliper compasses, or caliber compasses..

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

Shot :: Shot (imp. & p. p.) of Shoo.

Shoot :: Shoot (v. i.) To cause an engine or weapon to discharge a missile; -- said of a person or an agent; as, they shot at a target; he shoots better than he rides..

Cannonade :: Cannonade (v. t.) To attack with heavy artillery; to batter with cannon shot.

Arquebusade :: Arquebusade (n.) The shot of an arquebus.

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

Conning Tower :: Conning tower (n.) The shot-proof pilot house of a war vessel.

Ladle :: Ladle (v. t.) A ring, with a handle or handles fitted to it, for carrying shot..

Canna :: Canna (n.) A genus of tropical plants, with large leaves and often with showy flowers. The Indian shot (C. Indica) is found in gardens of the northern United States..

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..

Headmould Shot :: Headmould shot () An old name for the condition of the skull, in which the bones ride, or are shot, over each other at the sutures..

Case Shot :: Case shot () A collection of small projectiles, inclosed in a case or canister..

Hearing :: Hearing (n.) Extent within which sound may be heard; sound; earshot.

Rack :: Rack (a.) A piece or frame of wood, having several sheaves, through which the running rigging passes; -- called also rack block. Also, a frame to hold shot..

Shoot :: Shoot (n.) The act of shooting; the discharge of a missile; a shot; as, the shoot of a shuttle..

White :: White (n.) Specifically, the central part of the butt in archery, which was formerly painted white; the center of a mark at which a missile is shot..

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

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