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double-shot en · ADJ

Meanings

1. (not-comparable) Made by molding a second layer of plastic around a plastic or metal base.
   • This keyboard has double-shot keycaps, to prevent the symbols from wearing off.

Coordinates

dye-sub (mechanical keyboards)

double-shot en · VERB

Meanings

1. (transitive) To load (a cannon) with twice the shot, for increased damage at the expense of range.
   • The boarding-nettings were up, the guns double-shotted with grape and canister, and the swivels loaded with canisters of musket-balls. 1838, [Edgar Allan Poe], chapter XX, in The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket. […], New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC, pages 165–166:
   • The Indomitable raked the frigate’s stern with double-shotted guns.

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