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birdshot

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Definitions

  1. Small lead or steel shot, as pieces of ammunition, used in shotgun shells.

Word origin

From bird + shot.

Used in a sentence

  • In the first shooting, four of the teenagers were sitting on a porch and were peppered with birdshot from a shotgun fired from a passing car around 2:30 p.m., Sheriff John Rutherford said.
  • “Eyes were hit by birdshot pellets and it was deliberate, they are shooting to kill,” said the Tehran doctor. A colleague added that they had removed “20 pellets” from the body of a single protester.

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