Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Shot \Shot\, n.; pl. {Shot}or {Shots}. [OE. shot, schot, AS.
   gesceot a missile; akin to D. schot a shot, shoot, G. schuss,
   geschoss a missile, Icel. skot a throwing, a javelin, and E.
   shoot, v.t. [root]159. See {Shoot}, and cf. {Shot} a share.]
   1. The act of shooting; discharge of a firearm or other
      weapon which throws a missile.

            He caused twenty shot of his greatest cannon to be
            made at the king's army.              --Clarendon.

   2. A missile weapon, particularly a ball or bullet;
      specifically, whatever is discharged as a projectile from
      firearms or cannon by the force of an explosive.

   Note: Shot used in war is of various kinds, classified
         according to the material of which it is composed, into
         lead, wrought-iron, and cast-iron; according to form,
         into spherical and oblong; according to structure and
         modes of operation, into solid, hollow, and case. See
         {Bar shot}, {Chain shot}, etc., under {Bar}, {Chain},
         etc.

   3. Small globular masses of lead, of various sizes, -- used
      chiefly for killing game; as, bird shot; buckshot.

   4. The flight of a missile, or the distance which it is, or
      can be, thrown; as, the vessel was distant more than a
      cannon shot.

   5. A marksman; one who practices shooting; as, an exellent
      shot.

   {Shot belt}, a belt having a pouch or compartment for
      carrying shot.

   {Shot cartridge}, a cartridge containing powder and small
      shot, forming a charge for a shotgun.

   {Shot garland} (Naut.), a wooden frame to contain shot,
      secured to the coamings and ledges round the hatchways of
      a ship.

   {Shot gauge}, an instrument for measuring the diameter of
      round shot. --Totten.

   {shot hole}, a hole made by a shot or bullet discharged.

   {Shot locker} (Naut.), a strongly framed compartment in the
      hold of a vessel, for containing shot.

   {Shot of a cable} (Naut.), the splicing of two or more cables
      together, or the whole length of the cables thus united.
      

   {Shot prop} (Naut.), a wooden prop covered with tarred hemp,
      to stop a hole made by the shot of an enemy in a ship's
      side.

   {Shot tower}, a lofty tower for making shot, by dropping from
      its summit melted lead in slender streams. The lead forms
      spherical drops which cool in the descent, and are
      received in water or other liquid.

   {Shot window}, a window projecting from the wall. Ritson,
      quoted by Halliwell, explains it as a window that opens
      and shuts; and Wodrow describes it as a window of shutters
      made of timber and a few inches of glass above them.