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hailshot en · NOUN

Etymology

From hail + shot.

Meanings

  1. (obsolete, uncountable) Small shot that scatters like hailstones.
    • The Master of the Artillery did visit them sharply, with murthering Hail-shot from the Pieces mounted towards the Top of the Hill a. 1628 (date written), John Hayward, The Life, and Raigne of King Edward the Sixt, London: […] [Eliot’s Court Press, and J. Lichfield at Oxford?] for Iohn Partridge, […], published 1630, →OCLC: