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hailshot

hailshot noun: small shot that scatters like hailstones.

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

Origin of hailshot

From hail + shot.

Questions about hailshot

What does hailshot mean?
Hailshot means small shot that scatters like hailstones.
What part of speech is hailshot?
Hailshot is a noun.

Words near hailshot in the dictionary

  1. hails down
  2. hails from
  3. hailshaft
  4. hailshafts
  5. Hailsham
  6. hailshot
  7. hailstone
  8. hailstone number
  9. hailstone numbers
  10. hailstones
  11. hailstorm

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