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Shoot \Shoot\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Shot}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Shooting}. The old participle {Shotten} is obsolete. See
{Shotten}.] [OE. shotien, schotien, AS. scotian, v. i.,
sce['o]tan; akin to D. schieten, G. schie?en, OHG. sciozan,
Icel. skj?ta, Sw. skjuta, Dan. skyde; cf. Skr. skund to jump.
[root]159. Cf. {Scot} a contribution, {Scout} to reject,
{Scud}, {Scuttle}, v. i., {Shot}, {Sheet}, {Shut}, {Shuttle},
{Skittish}, {Skittles}.]
1. To let fly, or cause to be driven, with force, as an arrow
or a bullet; -- followed by a word denoting the missile,
as an object.
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If you please
To shoot an arrow that self way. --Shak.
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2. To discharge, causing a missile to be driven forth; --
followed by a word denoting the weapon or instrument, as
an object; -- often with off; as, to shoot a gun.
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The two ends od a bow, shot off, fly from one
another. --Boyle.
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3. To strike with anything shot; to hit with a missile;
often, to kill or wound with a firearm; -- followed by a
word denoting the person or thing hit, as an object.
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When Roger shot the hawk hovering over his master's
dove house. --A. Tucker.
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4. To send out or forth, especially with a rapid or sudden
motion; to cast with the hand; to hurl; to discharge; to
emit.
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An honest weaver as ever shot shuttle. --Beau. & Fl.
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A pit into which the dead carts had nightly shot
corpses by scores. --Macaulay.
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5. To push or thrust forward; to project; to protrude; --
often with out; as, a plant shoots out a bud.
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They shoot out the lip, they shake the head. --Ps.
xxii. 7.
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Beware the secret snake that shoots a sting.
--Dryden.
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6. (Carp.) To plane straight; to fit by planing.
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Two pieces of wood that are shot, that is, planed or
else pared with a paring chisel. --Moxon.
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7. To pass rapidly through, over, or under; as, to shoot a
rapid or a bridge; to shoot a sand bar.
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She . . . shoots the Stygian sound. --Dryden.
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8. To variegate as if by sprinkling or intermingling; to
color in spots or patches.
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The tangled water courses slept,
Shot over with purple, and green, and yellow.
--Tennyson.
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{To be shot of}, to be discharged, cleared, or rid of.
[Colloq.] "Are you not glad to be shot of him?" --Sir W.
Scott.
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Shot \Shot\, a.
Woven in such a way as to produce an effect of variegation,
of changeable tints, or of being figured; as, shot silks. See
{Shoot}, v. t., 8.
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Shot \Shot\,
imp. & p. p. of {Shoot}.
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Shot \Shot\, n. [AS. scot, sceot, fr. sce['o]tan to shoot; akin
to D. sschot, Icel. skot. [root]159. See {Scot} a share,
{Shoot}, v. t., and cf. {Shot} a shooting.]
A share or proportion; a reckoning; a scot.
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Here no shots are where all shares be. --Chapman.
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A man is never . . . welcome to a place till some
certain shot be paid and the hostess say "Welcome."
--Shak.
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Shot \Shot\, n.; pl. {Shot}or {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.
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He caused twenty shot of his greatest cannon to be
made at the king's army. --Clarendon.
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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.
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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.
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3. Small globular masses of lead, of various sizes, -- used
chiefly as the projectiles in shotguns for killing game;
as, bird shot; buckshot.
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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.
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5. A marksman; one who practices shooting; as, an exellent
shot.
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6. (Fisheries)
(a) A cast of a net.
(b) The entire throw of nets at one time.
(c) A place or spot for setting nets.
(d) A single draft or catch of fish made.
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7. (Athletics) A spherical weight, to be put, or thrown, in
competition for distance.
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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.
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9. A guess; conjecture; also, an attempt. [Colloq.] "I'll
take a shot at it."
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{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.
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Shot \Shot\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Shotted}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Shotting}.]
To load with shot, as a gun. --Totten.
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