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Definition of Birdshot
1. small shot for shooting birds [n BIRDSHOT]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Birdshot
Literary usage of Birdshot
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Transactions of the American Ophthalmological Society Annual Meeting by American Ophthalmological Society (1897)
"22 birdshot, which had entered the upper inner corner of the orbit. The eye did
not move upwards and the upper part of the orbit was hard, evidently filled ..."
2. The American and English Railroad Cases: A Collection of All Cases Affecting by Frank Cyrus Smith, Thomas Johnson Michie, United States Courts, Great Britain Courts, Canada Courts (1904)
"He also testified that the cinders were from the size of a pea to that of a birdshot.
One Fanning, who was the companion of the plaintiff on the journey, ..."
3. The Coastal Plain of North Carolina by William Bullock Clark, Benjamin LeRoy Miller (1912)
"Very coarse sand, many of the grains as large as birdshot. with small particles
of gray calcareous clay, and with numerous fragments of shells ..."
4. Our Big Game: A Book for Sportsmen and Nature Lovers by Dwight Williams Huntington (1904)
"Putting the spurs to the pony, I urged him to the top of the bank, and, dismounting,
ran forward hoping to bag my lion with birdshot, trusting to a revolver ..."
5. Text-book of Diseases of the Eye: For Students and Practitioners of Medicine by Howard Forde Hansell, William Merrick Sweet (1903)
"Injuries from birdshot are frequent. The shot penetrates into or through the ...
RADIOGRAPH OF birdshot IN THE EYE AND ORBIT Foreign Bodies in the Orbit. ..."
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