dust shot

noun

the smallest size of shot for use in a shotgun.

Origin of dust shot

First recorded in 1790–1800

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Examples from the Web for dust shot

Historical Examples of dust shot

I shoot them with light charges of dust-shot, fired from my collecting gun.
Manual of Taxidermy
Charles Johnson Maynard
In such an auxiliary barrel use 32-calibre shells loaded with dust-shot instead of bullets.
Elementary Zoology, Second Edition
Vernon L. Kellogg
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. Klaas

British Dictionary definitions for dust shot

dust shot

noun

the smallest size of shot for a shotgun

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