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Duck shot   /dək ʃɑt/   Listen
Duck shot

noun
1.
Small lead shot for shotgun shells.  Synonyms: bird shot, buckshot.






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"Duck shot" Quotes from Famous Books



... to think they did not know what they were afraid of. Twenty duck shot would not have mattered, if only the gun had been wrapped in green baize. It was just the glitter of lock, stock, and barrel. Even Prim would have been easy if I had worn things ...
— The Gold of Chickaree • Susan Warner

... such ting shoot before. I use duck shot, goose shot, sometime nails, and sometime little stones, and once in woods I kill gleat bear with junk of lead: but I never shoot arrow before." Thus said Peter, wondering at his ...
— Adrift in the Ice-Fields • Charles W. Hall

... slanted a little to the north, to expose its flesh side to the sun, measured, in the extreme, eight feet long by six high. Where any flesh still adhered, Joe boldly scored it with his knife to lay it open to the sun. It now appeared somewhat spotted and injured by the duck shot. You may see the old frames on which hides have been stretched at many camping-places in ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2, Issue 10, August, 1858 • Various

... young Malay, laughing, as he coloured through his brown skin; "it is nothing. I saw a wretch trying to do harm, and I fired at him with small duck shot. You ...
— Middy and Ensign • G. Manville Fenn



Words linked to "Duck shot" :   bird shot, shotgun shell, shot, buckshot, pellet



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