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Meanings of buckshot in English

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Small lead shot for shotgun shells.

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        Examples for "bird shot"
        Examples for "bird shot"
        1
        A ball stuck full of sand- bird shot came tearing into Fort Slatter.
        The Story of a Bad Boy
        2
        It was raining hard, and the drops stung their faces like bird shot.
        The Vision Splendid
        3
        Not a tree but was spattered with bullet marks as with bird shot.
        Pathfinders of the West / Being the Thrilling Story of the Adven...
        4
        Or you split a back tooth, biting down on bird shot.
        Rant: an oral biography of buster casey
        5
        Then, like a bird shot in flight, his death song ended.
        Dhampir
        1
        My gun was in the tent, and, besides, I had no bullets-onlyduck shot.
        The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories
        2
        Melrose had received a charge of duck shot full in the breast, with fatal effect.
        The Mating of Lydia
        3
        The water-drops beat like duck shot against the window of the railway-carriage containing Stephen and Elfride.
        A Pair of Blue Eyes
        4
        He had got but a few rods, when the overseer raised his gun, loaded with duck shot, and brought him down.
        The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 3 of 4
        5
        After he had whirled around a few times, like a duck shot in the head, he concluded that his piety had been awfully shocked.
        The Story of the Mormons, from the Date of Their Origin to the Y...
        Usage of buckshot in English
        1
        Gossip said William's bullwhip was custom-made, with buckshot braided into the tip.
        The irish devil
        2
        But no sound of breaking bone came when buckshot-filled ferrule met arm.
        Soulless
        3
        He then took down a double-barreled shotgun and loaded it with buckshot.
        The Wife of his Youth and Other Stories of the Color Line, and S...
        4
        I absorbed and rolled with the heavy recoil of the double-aught buckshot.
        Monster Hunter International
        5
        But with Coney, he goes out there and throws buckshot at you.
        The Yankee Years
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        This old gun is loaded with buckshot, and she scatters like hell.
        A Texas Ranger
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        Get out of that at once, or I'll riddle you with buckshot.
        Canoe Boys and Campfires; Or, Adventures on Winding Waters
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        Abomination reloaded, I put a round of double-aught buckshot into Bia's face.
        Monster Hunter Vendetta
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        He did that even as my silver buckshot pellets penetrated his skull.
        Monster Hunter International
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        A heavy charge of buckshot had struck him in the breast.
        The Rose in the Ring
        11
        The heavy charge of buckshot had riddled him through and through.
        A Man Four-Square
        12
        I shot Hood repeatedly in the chest, silver buckshot tearing right through him.
        Monster Hunter Vendetta
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        The Country Squire station wagon behind her was peppered with buckshot.
        The stand
        14
        He dug it out and found a bullet and two buckshot.
        Somewhere in Red Gap
        15
        The cannon vomited forth its package of buckshot with a roar.
        Les Misérables
        16
        Potter kept a 12-gauge shotgun behind the bar, loaded with buckshot.
        Frankenstein: Lost Souls - A Novel
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