What is "shotshell"

Usage examples of "shotshell".

We picked up some shotshell pellets and two wads, either from off the floor or picked out of the concrete.

Bowls, dishes, and small containers crashed to the ground as tray and pail alike were abandoned in midair, and with a flash of rage every bit as quick and every bit as deadly as that shotgun blast had been, Longarm clawed his Colt from his holster and dropped flat an instant before the second shotshell charge exploded from the mouth of an alley.

When the shotshell hit the dirt, he shifted his left leg to set his foot down on top of the hot shell.

Charles dropped the plastic bag the shotshells had come in, and the magazine plug, into the garbage container by the door.

Hanging from the saddle horn by a lanyard was a twelve-gauge Parker hammerless side-by-side, the barrels cut down to eighteen inches, the shotshells loaded with .

M-16 but fired 12-gauge shotshells semiauto, three-round bursts, or full-auto bursts.

Then he jammed in another 10-round box magazine of shotshells and followed his partners in retreat.

But, hell, it ain't but so miny times you c'n reload even them good, plastic shotshells, you know, they gits sorta frayed on the ends.