dust shot
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noun
the smallest size of shot for use in a shotgun.
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Origin of dust shot
First recorded in 1790–1800
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Examples from the Web for dust shot
It was approached close enough to be shot with a 22 caliber pistol loaded with dust-shot.
Summer Birds From the Yucatan Peninsula|Erwin E. KlaasIn such an auxiliary barrel use 32-calibre shells loaded with dust-shot instead of bullets.
Elementary Zoology, Second Edition|Vernon L. KelloggI shoot them with light charges of dust-shot, fired from my collecting gun.
Manual of Taxidermy|Charles Johnson Maynard
dust shot
noun
the smallest size of shot for a shotgun
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