Buckshot
['bʌkʃɒt] or ['bʌkʃɑt]
Definition
(n.) A coarse leaden shot, larger than swan shot, used in hunting deer and large game.
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Examples
- I could not hit them with buckshot at a hundred yards, and at three hundred yards they shot us as they wished as though we were rabbits. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Also I had only a shotgun with cartridges of large buckshot and the _guardia civil_ had Mausers. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
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