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.

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