Definition of Hailshot

1. n. pl. Small shot which scatter like hailstones.

Definition of Hailshot

1. Noun. (obsolete) Small shot that scatters like hailstones. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Hailshot

1. a ball of hail [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Hailshot

hail and ride
hail fellow well met
hail from
hail storm
hail storms
hailed
hailer
hailers
hailest
hailier
hailiest
hailing
haillike
hails
hailse
hailshot (current term)
hailshots
hailstone
hailstones
hailstorm
hailstorms
haily
haimish
hain
hain't
hainch
hainched
hainches
hainching
haineaultite

Literary usage of Hailshot

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The English Works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury by Thomas ( Hobbes (1845)
"For the places of the same body are always equal. But that wheat, sand, hailshot, or loose stones should make a firm arch, is not credible. ..."

2. The Dictionary of National Biography by Sidney Lee (1909)
"... inventing a method of making gunpowder of ten times the ordinary strength, a mode of manufacturing hailshot, a gun somewhat; on the principle of the ..."

3. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1867)
"... the dread and hostility of the Indians, amongst whom he had on one occasion fired '• hailshot " without any provocation, out of the merest wantonness. ..."

4. An English Garner: Ingatherings from Our History and Literature by Edward Arber (1897)
"... saving themselves and extremely annoying us: I removed into the forecastle of our ship, and so plied them with hailshot, that they forsook their stand. ..."

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