King James Bible Dictionary

SHOT, preterit tense and participle passive of shoot.

SHOT, noun

1. The act of shooting; discharge of a missile weapon.

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

Clarendon.

[Note. The plural shots, may be used, but shot is generally used in both numbers.]

2. A missile weapon, particularly a ball or bullet. Shot is properly what is discharged from fire-arms or cannons by the force of gunpowder. shot used in war is of various kinds; as, roundshot or balls; those for cannon make of iron, those for muskets and pistols, of lead. Secondly, double headed shot or bar shot, consisting of a bar with a round head at each end. Thirdly, chain-shot, consisting of to balls chained together. Fourthly, grape-shot, consisting of a number of balls bound together with a cord in canvas on an iron bottom. Fifthly, case shot or canister shot, consisting of a great number of small bullets in a cylindrical tin box. Sixthly, langrel or langrage, which consists of pieces of iron of any kind or shape. Small shot, denotes musket balls.

3. Small globular masses of lead, used for killing fowls and other small animals. These are not called balls or bullets.

4. The flight of a missile weapon, or the distance which it passes from the engine; as a cannon shot; a musket shot; a pistol shot; a bow shot.

5. A reckoning; charge or proportional share of expense. [See Scot.]

Shot of a cable, in seaman's language, the splicing of two cables together; or the whole length of two cables thus united. A ship will ride easier with one shot of cable thus lengthened, than with three short cables.

SHOTE, noun

1. A fish resembling the trout.

2. A young hog. [See Shoot.]

SHOT'-FREE, adjective [shot and free.]

1. Free from charge; exempted from any share of expense; scot-free.

2. Not to be injured by shot. [Not used.]

3. Unpunished. [Not used.]

SHOTTEN, adjective shot'n. [from shoot.]

1. Having ejected the spawn; as a shotten herring.

2. Shooting into angles.

3. Shot out of its socket; dislocated; as a bone.

SHOTT'ING, noun

1. The act of discharging fire-arms, or of sending an arrow with force; a firing.

2. Sensation of a wuick glancing pain.

3. In sportsmanship, the act or practice of killing game with guns or fire-arms.