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Meanings of birdshot in English

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Usage of birdshot in English
1
Medics and protesters say police are using birdshot, which the police deny.
Reuters
2
Police fired tear gas and birdshot at them, a Reuters witness said.
Reuters
3
Two were wounded because of birdshot and the rest suffered teargas-related injures.
Reuters
4
The youth felt the sting of a piece of birdshot in his leg.
Tales from Bohemia
5
Well, the g-g-gun goes off, and f-f-fills Mister Thief with number twelve birdshot.
At Whispering Pine Lodge
6
We do not seek bears with birdshot, and that is all we have.
The Puppet Crown
7
But the little birdshot wouldn't even go through an old rusted out washtub.
The Life of Me: An Autobiography
8
Witnesses heard gunfire and state television showed a man in hospital with birdshot wounds.
Reuters
9
And then all of them began to spit birdshot, and started an inquest simultaneously.
At the Foot of the Rainbow
10
Some of the birdshot pellets struck another student, Thomas Fowler, standing several feet away.
The Guardian
11
Well, mind how you tempt me to let fly with a charge of birdshot.
At Whispering Pine Lodge
12
The night-riders mostly used these here automatic shot-guns, but they didn't bother with birdshot.
Danny's Own Story
13
Come on outa there 'fore I send a charge of birdshot in after yuh!
The Phantom Herd
14
It allows security forces to disperse illegal protests with water cannon, tear gas and birdshot.
Reuters
15
The reason I used the birdshot was that I didn't want to break the glass.
No country for old men
16
These weapons discharge hundreds of small metal pellets, or birdshot, capable of piercing the eye.
The Guardian
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