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musket shot
1. Shot fired from a musket; also, a musket-ball.
1590Sir J. Smyth Disc. Weapons 15 In giuing their volees of Mosquet shot but onlie twelue scores. 1621Burton Anat. Mel. i. ii. i. iii. (1651) 50 Such as shall endure a Rapiers point, musket shot, and never to be wounded. 1755Washington Lett. Writ. 1889 I. 193, I have also impressed wagons and sent them..for flour, musket-shots, and flints. 1884Pae Eustace 143 The musket-shot flew like hail.
2. The range of a musket.
1617Moryson Itin. i. 228 From hence a Musket shot, or little more, is another house, which [etc.]. 1669Staynred Fortification 2, 720 Foot, being within Musket-shot. 1719De Foe Crusoe ii. (Globe ed.) 404 Our Men came within two Musket Shot of them. 1844Regul. & Ord. Army 274 An unexpected obstacle within point-blank Musket-shot of the place attacked. |