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Buckshot

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Lead shot used in shotgun cartridges, made of larger pellets than birdshot and suitable for hunting larger game. US, countable, uncountable

    "Our men were all well armed with Colt's revolvers and Mississippi yagers, which last, carried a bullet, and two buckshots."

  2. 2
    small lead shot for shotgun shells wordnet

Etymology

From buck + shot.

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