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Shots

Shot \Shot\, n.; pl. Shotor Shots. [OE. shot, schot, AS. gesceot a missile; akin to D. schot a shot, shoot, G. schuss, geschoss a missile, Icel. skot a throwing, a javelin, and E. shoot, v.t. [root]159. See Shoot, and cf. Shot a share.]

  1. The act of shooting; discharge of a firearm or other weapon which throws a missile.

    He caused twenty shot of his greatest cannon to be made at the king's army.
    --Clarendon.

  2. A missile weapon, particularly a ball or bullet; specifically, whatever is discharged as a projectile from firearms or cannon by the force of an explosive.

    Note: Shot used in war is of various kinds, classified according to the material of which it is composed, into lead, wrought-iron, and cast-iron; according to form, into spherical and oblong; according to structure and modes of operation, into solid, hollow, and case. See Bar shot, Chain shot, etc., under Bar, Chain, etc.

  3. Small globular masses of lead, of various sizes, -- used chiefly as the projectiles in shotguns for killing game; as, bird shot; buckshot.

  4. The flight of a missile, or the distance which it is, or can be, thrown; as, the vessel was distant more than a cannon shot.

  5. A marksman; one who practices shooting; as, an exellent shot.

  6. (Fisheries)

    1. A cast of a net.

    2. The entire throw of nets at one time.

    3. A place or spot for setting nets.

    4. A single draft or catch of fish made.

  7. (Athletics) A spherical weight, to be put, or thrown, in competition for distance.

  8. A stroke, throw, or other action to propel a ball or other game piece in certain games, as in billiards, hockey, basketball, curling, etc.; also, a move, as in chess.

  9. A guess; conjecture; also, an attempt. [Colloq.] ``I'll take a shot at it.''

    Shot belt, a belt having a pouch or compartment for carrying shot.

    Shot cartridge, a cartridge containing powder and small shot, forming a charge for a shotgun.

    Shot garland (Naut.), a wooden frame to contain shot, secured to the coamings and ledges round the hatchways of a ship.

    Shot gauge, an instrument for measuring the diameter of round shot.
    --Totten.

    shot hole, a hole made by a shot or bullet discharged.

    Shot locker (Naut.), a strongly framed compartment in the hold of a vessel, for containing shot.

    Shot of a cable (Naut.), the splicing of two or more cables together, or the whole length of the cables thus united.

    Shot prop (Naut.), a wooden prop covered with tarred hemp, to stop a hole made by the shot of an enemy in a ship's side.

    Shot tower, a lofty tower for making shot, by dropping from its summit melted lead in slender streams. The lead forms spherical drops which cool in the descent, and are received in water or other liquid.

    Shot window, a window projecting from the wall. Ritson, quoted by Halliwell, explains it as a window that opens and shuts; and Wodrow describes it as a window of shutters made of timber and a few inches of glass above them.

Shots

Shots \Shots\, n. pl. The refuse of cattle taken from a drove. [Prov. Eng.]
--Halliwell.

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shots

n. (plural of shot English)

Wikipedia
Shots (Damien Dempsey album)

Shots is a 2005 studio album by the Irish singer-songwriter Damien Dempsey which was released in Ireland and the United Kingdom in March 2005. It is the third studio album released by the singer-songwriter. Brian Eno provides backing vocals on the opening track "Sing All Your Cares Away". The album discusses a diverse range of topics including oppression, slavery, drugs and poverty.

Shots entered the Irish Albums Chart at #1 and reached platinum status. It went on to receive one nomination at the 2006 Meteor Awards.

Shots

Shots may refer to:

  • Injection (medicine)
  • Shooter (mixed drink)
  • Shots (Damien Dempsey album), 2005
  • Shots (Ladyhawk album), 2008
  • "Shots" (LMFAO song), by LMFAO featuring Lil Jon from Party Rock
  • "Shots", a song by Neil Young from Re-ac-tor
  • "Shots" (Imagine Dragons song), a 2015 single from the album Smoke + Mirrors
  • Aldershot Town F.C., an association football club nicknamed The Shots
  • Aldershot Shots, a speedway team
  • Shots (social network), a mobile app
Shots (Ladyhawk album)

Shots is the second full-length album by Vancouver indie rock band Ladyhawk. It was released on Jagjaguwar on March 4, 2008 in North America, and on April 7, 2008 in the UK.

Shots (LMFAO song)

"Shots" is a song performed by American electro recording duo LMFAO featuring vocals from American crunk rapper Lil Jon. It was released as the third single from the album Party Rock. The song was written by Jonathan Smith, Skyler Austen Gordy, Stefan Kendal Gordy, and Eric Delatorre.

Shots (Imagine Dragons song)

"Shots" is a song by American alternative rock band Imagine Dragons. It was written by band members Ben McKee, Daniel Platzman, Dan Reynolds and Wayne Sermon and released as the third single from their second studio album Smoke + Mirrors (2015).

Usage examples of "shots".

I am satisfied that of six pointed shots in summer shooting, three at the least must be treated as snap shots!

I had just finished loading, and my retriever had just brought in the dead bird, which was quite riddled, cut up evidently by the whole body of the charge--both the wings broken, one in three places, one leg almost dissevered, and several shots in the neck and body--when up came my friend, and sure enough he was hit--one pellet had struck him on the cheek bone, and was imbedded in the skin.

Forester had marked down into the bog meadow, not one bird escaped, and of that bevy not one bird did Frank miss, killing twelve, all of them double shots, to his own share, and beating Archer in a canter.

Lam and Jaybird, take the first shots as soon as they come all the way over the ridge.

He initially chose to temper his remarks about the pictures and X rays themselves by claiming that the incomplete state of the evidence made a conclusive determination of the source of the shots impossible.

Report first calls upon the witnesses who indicated in some way that the shots originated from this source.

Had the missed shot occurred between these two, says the Report, all the shots could still have been fired from the Carcano, which required at least 2.

If the first or third shots missed, the time span grows to at least 7.

Commission concluded that the shots which killed President Kennedy and wounded Governor Connally were fired from the sixth-floor window at the southeast corner of the Texas School Book Depository Building.

Since the preponderance of the evidence indicated that three shots were fired, the Commission concluded that one shot probably missed the Presidential limousine and its occupants, and that the three shots were fired in a time period ranging from approximately 4.

It has posited the source of the shots at a location accessible to Oswald, and has named as the assassination weapon a rifle purchased and possibly possessed by Oswald.

Commission to attach some probative value to the fingerprint and palmprint identifications in reaching the conclusion that Oswald was present at the window from which the shots were fired, although the prints do not establish the exact time he was there.

Thus, this evidence does not connect Oswald with the source of the shots and is meaningless, because Oswald normally handled such cartons in the building as part of his work.

That Oswald was seen where he normally worked such a substantial amount of the time prior to the shots connects him with nothing except his expected routine.

Oswald was at the southeast corner window at the time the shots were fired, the Commission .