Buckshot

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A large lead shot for shotgun shells, used especially in hunting big game.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. lead shot used in shotgun cartridges
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A coarse leaden shot, larger than swan shot, used in hunting deer and large game.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A large size of shot, so named from its use in killing deer.
  • n. A lava of granulated structure, occurring in Australia, embedded in sandy alluvium.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. small lead shot for shotgun shells
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    pellet    shot   
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