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.
© Webster 1913.
Gun"shot`, a.
Made by the shot of a gun: as. a gunshot wound.
© Webster 1913.