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hail-shot

hail-shot is the alternative spelling of hailshot.

Meaning of hailshot

Noun

hailshot (uncountable)

  1. (obsolete) Small shot that scatters like hailstones.
    • The Master of the Artillery did visit them sharply, with murthering Hail-shot from the Pieces mounted towards the Top of the Hilla. 1628 (date written), John Hayward, The Life, and Raigne of King Edward the Sixt, London: […] [Eliot’s Court Press, and J. Lichfield at Oxford?] for Iohn Partridge, […], published 1630, →OCLC

Questions about hail-shot

What is hail-shot the alternative spelling of?
Hail-shot is the alternative spelling of hailshot.

Words near hail-shot in the dictionary

  1. hail-fellow
  2. hail-fellow-well-met
  3. hail-fellow-well-mets
  4. hail-fellows
  5. hail-fellows-well-met
  6. hail-shot
  7. hailable
  8. Hailaerh
  9. Hailakandi
  10. Hailam
  11. Hailamese

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