| 释义 |
buckshot
\ˈ ̷ ̷ˌ ̷ ̷\ noun
(plural buckshot or buckshots)
Etymology: buck (I) + shot
1. : a coarse lead shot manufactured in sizes ranging from a quarter to a third of an inch in diameter and used in shotgun shells for hunting and police purposes
2.
a. also buckshot soil or buckshot land : a soil that contains or that on drying breaks into pellets resembling buckshot (as certain heavy clays of the Mississippi delta area and some sandy alluviums of Australia)
b. : one of the pellets of such soil |