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Definition of Shot tower
1. Noun. Tower of a kind once used to make shot; molten lead was poured through a sieve and dropped into water.
Definition of Shot tower
1. Noun. A tall building in which droplets of molten lead fall into a pool of water in order to form lead shot ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Shot Tower
Literary usage of Shot tower
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Travels in the United States, Etc.: During 1849 and 1850 by Emmeline Stuart-Wortley (1851)
"... House and Ceme- . teries—Baltimore—Battle and Washington Monuments—The Catholic
Cathedral—The Merchants' shot tower—Its Trade and Commerce—Its Increase ..."
2. A Tour of St. Louis; Or, The Inside Life of a Great City by Joseph A. Dacus, James William Buel (1878)
"LOUIS shot tower. The completion of the St. Louis shot tower, in the year 1847,
marked an era in the history of our city and the entire West, ..."
3. A Tour of St. Louis; Or, The Inside Life of a Great City by Joseph A. Dacus, James William Buel (1878)
"LOUIS shot tower. The completion of the St. Louis shot tower, in the year 1847,
marked an era in. the history of our city and the entire West, ..."
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