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Unshot

Unshot \Un*shot"\, v. t. [1st pref. un- + shot.] To remove the shot from, as from a shotted gun; to unload.

Unshot

Unshot \Un*shot"\, a. [Pref. un- + shot.] Not hit by a shot; also, not discharged or fired off.

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unshot
  1. 1 Not having been shoot. 2 Not discharged or fired off. v

  2. (context transitive English) To remove the shot from (a gun); to unload.

Usage examples of "unshot".

And quickly beneath the lintel in the porch he strung his bow and took from the quiver an arrow unshot before, messenger of pain.

Leng had changed the lock on the door leading into his room, but I retained a skeleton key which turned the wards and unshot the bolt.

The conservationists were kicking up such a terrible stink about unshot mallards escaping into the wild.

I shot at those which appeared opposite to me, or upon my side, leaving those that appeared opposite to you, or on your side unshot at, as is the custom of hunters.

The dog was bred to have an unshot jaw so that even while he was holding the bull by the nose he could still breathe, and a broad, squat body on bandy legs to make it difficult for the bull to turn him over.

He unlocked a cabinet and unshot the bar across a line of bottles and pulled one from the hole in which it was set.

After leaving the cafeteria, I walked out onto the sunlit concrete plaza, where I turned around and saw myself reflected in the one remaining unshot window, and I was all one color, purple.

There was also, Ramage remembered with a grin, the case of the captain who brought his ship in with a great flourish and began firing the salute without the gunner having made sure the guns were unshotted: the first gun of the salute had put a roundshot through the governor's stables, though fortunately without killing grooms or horses.

The sound of the guns was huge, the smoke thick and the tremor of the cannon, even though they were unshotted, shook the deck beneath Sharpe's feet.