What is "buckshot"

Usage examples of "buckshot".

Of course, the richer the bird, the harder the fall when the Brindles brought it down with buckshot.

So I happened to be looking in the direction of the wireshop, a full block behind me, when its front wall danced across the street, hotly pursued by brightness intolerable, and struck the vacant storefront opposite like some monstrous charge of Brobdingnagian buckshot.

Screw-barrel guns fired buckshot instead of conventional ball, making it easier to hit a target at night, hence their name.

The cops withstood the attack for about an hour, then swarmed out of the place with a stunning show of force that included firing deadly buckshot balls out of 12-gauge shotguns straight into the crowd.

Young Dutchy, that had been so cocky, took a charge of buckshot square in the face, died on that path kicking like a chicken with the head cut off.

Hardly a thump in that wet powder, and buckshot came rolling right out the barrels.

Watson was pretty well shot to pieces, mostly buckshot but plenty of bullets, too.

His piece was apparently loaded with buckshot, and the little balls must have struck the legs, nipped off the toes, pierced the feet, and otherwise slightly wounded the lower extremities of fifty men.

Double-aught buckshot blasted tree limbs, sending bark, leaves and chunks of cannie flying.

Don's men at point-blank range, the buckshot blowing the man's chest out and sending him sprawling.

Watson wasn't there a year when somebody put a load of buckshot into a woman named Myra Maybelle Shirley, who lived with a dang Injun, Tom Starr's son.

Taylor County, but that feller arrived here with hot buckshot in his butt, I'll tell you that much.

God, his neighbors cheered him, and they cheered again when he bought some buckshot loads at Smallwood's store for that old double-barrel.

Two charges of buckshot right together would knock down the leaders and scatter the rest, and he might keep 'em ducking with his revolver while he pushed his boat back off the beach, shot his way out of there.

Watson was crusted with blood-black sand and blind, with bullet-smashed teeth, nose and lower lip half shot away, black-and-blue face and neck and arms and dead-white farmer's body turning a bad gray-purple around the bullet holes and buckshot rashes, and sand fleas hopping all over the whole mess.