Gunshot
['gʌnʃɒt] or ['ɡʌnʃɑt]
Definition
(n.) Act of firing a gun; a shot.
(n.) The distance to which shot can be thrown from a gun, so as to be effective; the reach or range of a gun.
(a.) Made by the shot of a gun: as. a gunshot wound.
Edited by Charlene
Examples
- About the time the advance of troops reached a point within gunshot of the fort on the land side, he engaged the water batteries at long range. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- When Wildeve reached this point a report startled his ear, and a few spent gunshots fell among the leaves around him. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
Edited by Abraham