Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Gunshot \Gun"shot`\, n.
   1. Act of firing a gun; a shot.

   2. The distance to which shot can be thrown from a gun, so as
      to be effective; the reach or range of a gun.

            Those who are come over to the royal party are
            supposed to be out of gunshot.        --Dryden.

Gunshot \Gun"shot`\, a.
   Made by the shot of a gun: as. a gunshot wound.

Source : WordNet®

gunshot
     n : the act of shooting a gun; "the gunfire endangered innocent
         bystanders"; "they retreated in the face of withering
         enemy fire" [syn: {gunfire}]