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单词 buckshot-cartridge
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buckshot-cartridge
2. A coarse kind of shot, larger than swan-shot, used in shooting deer or other large game. Also attributive, as in buckshot-cartridge; buckshot-cinder n. (see quot.). buckshot-rule n. a political nickname for government (of Ireland) upheld by a constabulary with loaded rifles, which arose during the Chief-Secretaryship of Mr. W. E. Forster, and was especially associated with his name, though the order that the constabulary should load with buck-shot, instead of ball as formerly, was made under his predecessor Mr. J. Lowther. buckshot soil n. U.S. (see quot.). buckshot war n. U.S. an outbreak in Pennsylvania in 1838, arising out of election disputes, so called because orders were issued to the troops to have cartridges loaded with ‘buckshot and ball’.
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the world > food and drink > hunting > shooting > shooting equipment > [noun] > shot-gun or fowling-piece > shot
swan-shot1639
goose-shota1658
buck-shot1776
mustard seed1809
swan-drop1821
snipe-shot1822
buck1845
swan-post1846
loopers1886
society > authority > rule or government > a or the system of government > other systems > [noun] > by force
chirocracy1677
command1693
coercion1798
cannonarchy1841
buckshot-rule1881
society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > materials produced from metalworking > [noun] > slag or scoria > of specific metals
lead-ashes1515
quittor1671
bottom1852
buckshot-cinder1881
lead-ash1882
red mud1936
1776 O. Schuyler in J. Sparks Corr. Amer. Revol. (1853) I. 252 Should the enemy advance..we shall be at a loss for ball and buckshot.
1842 Congress. Globe 16 June 609/1 Mr. Benton believed that was the phrase used in Pennsylvania, in time of the buckshot war.
1871 S. de Vere Americanisms (1872) 279 A Whiskey War in Pennsylvania..followed by the so-called Buckshot War.
1871 G. H. Napheys Prevention & Cure Dis. iii. iv. 740 A piece about the size of a buckshot is the ordinary dose.
1871 R. Somers Southern States since War 144 The soil is a dry deep red loam—what is called, in the language of the country [sc. the state of Mississippi], ‘a buckshot soil’, with a good deal of lime in it.
1881 Parnell in Daily News 3 Oct. 6/3 Enemies to buckshot rule.
1881 Trans. Amer. Inst. Mining Engineers 1880–1 9 112 Buckshot-cinder, cinder from the iron blast-furnace, containing grains of iron.
1885 Suakim iv. 88 To be used at night pending the arrival of buckshot cartridges from England.
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