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birdshot

birdshot

4 5.7
Small round metal pellets used in shotguns for hunting birds
  • noun
  • /ˈbɜrdˌʃɑt/
  • Specialized
translation icon : munición para aves
  • 3.) Mr. Whittington had about 126 pieces of birdshot in his skin and body.
  • birdshot pellets
  • loaded with birdshot
  • fire birdshot

It was it was bird birdshot.

Examples

  • Why use birdshot to reduce fatalities?

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  • "At that range with a shotgun loaded with birdshot, I would have done nothing but piss him off," Fritz said.

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  • One is loaded with birdshot.

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  • That's what the birdshot is for.

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  • Come now, you're not gonna fill up a deer with birdshot, are you?

  • I have fired birdshot, buckshot, and slugs.

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  • Spray rattled like birdshot against the wheelhouse windows.

    Fiction book (1994)
  • People being carried out on stretchers with injuries ranging from birdshot to live gunfire injuries.

  • The 12 ga fires a standard 1-1/8 oz load of birdshot, and the 28 ga load weighs 1/4 oz less at 7/8 oz.

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  • The hunter carefully loaded his shotgun with birdshot to ensure he could catch small birds.

Synonyms

pellet
vsbirdshot
23 4.9

A small metal ball fired from a shotgun

is specific to bird hunting and lists common materials like lead or steel
bird shot
vsbirdshot
  • Specialized
1 5.8

Small round lead pellets used in shotgun shells to hunt small birds

includes both lead and steel pellets for the same hunting use
duck shot
vsbirdshot
  • Specialized
7.2

Small metal balls put in shotgun shells for hunting ducks

is used for hunting birds in general rather than only waterfowl

How Powerful

slug
45 7.2
shotgun shell
  • Specialized
7 3.8
buckshot
  • Specialized
18 7.0
birdshot
  • Specialized
4 5.7
blank
  • Specialized
43 7.2

Surface Forms

birdshot singular
birdshots plural

Morphology

birdshot = bird + shot (transparent) = bird + shot

The compound literally denotes the kind of shot used for hunting birds; the meaning is directly derived from its components.

Etymology

Birdshot comes from the two simple words bird and shot, where 'shot' means 'small round pellets' fired from a shotgun to hit birds, so birdshot is the small pellets used for bird hunting.