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misshot en · NOUN

Etymology

From mis- + shot.

Meanings

  1. A shot that was made incorrectly; an instance of misshooting.
    • I always figgered one of them Newton boys made a misshot and killed the horse accidentally. 2010, J. Frank Dobie, Coronado's Children:
    • He replied that he was, but that Burns had made a misshot. 1913, Oklahoma. Supreme Court, Oklahoma Reports - Volume 8, page 558:
    • When I was appointed commissary sergeant, I regularly shot the cattle myself, and never made a misshot, having been trained to marksmanship in Switzerland from the age of twelve years. 2022, A. M. Gustafson, John Spring's Arizona, page 74:

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misshot en · VERB

Etymology

From mis- + shot.

Meanings

  1. (form-of, participle, past) simple past and past participle of misshoot
    form of misshoot