hailshot

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noun

Small shot that scatters like hailstones.

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Meanings

nounhailshot (uncountable)
  1. obsoleteuncountableSmall shot that scatters like hailstones.

    The Master of the Artillery did visit them sharply, with murthering Hail-shot from the Pieces mounted towards the Top of the Hill

    a. 1628 (date written), John Hayward, The Life, and Raigne of King Edward the Sixt, London: […] [Eliot’s Court Press, and J. Lichfield at Oxford?] for Iohn Partridge, […], published 1630, →OCLC

Origin

From hail + shot.

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APA

hailshot. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/hailshot

MLA

“hailshot.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/hailshot. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “hailshot,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/hailshot.

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