Shot
Webster's Dictionary [1]
(1): ( imp. & p. p.) of Shoot
(2): ( n.) A single draft or catch of fish made.
(3): ( n.) A guess; conjecture; also, an attempt.
(4): ( n.) A stroke or propulsive action in certain games, as in billiards, hockey, curling, etc.; also, a move, as in chess.
(5): ( n.) A spherical weight, to be put, or thrown, in competition for distance.
(6): ( n.) 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.
(7): ( n.) A place or spot for setting nets.
(8): ( n.) The entire throw of nets at one time.
(9): ( n.) A cast of a net.
(10): ( n.) 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.
(11): ( n.) A marksman; one who practices shooting; as, an exellent shot.
(12): ( n.) Small globular masses of lead, of various sizes, - used chiefly for killing game; as, bird shot; buckshot.
(13): ( n.) The act of shooting; discharge of a firearm or other weapon which throws a missile.
(14): ( v. t.) To load with shot, as a gun.
(15): ( pl.) of Shot
(16): imp. & p. p. of Shoot.
(17): ( a.) Woven in such a way as to produce an effect of variegation, of changeable tints, or of being figured; as, shot silks. See Shoot, v. t., 8.
(18): ( v. t.) A share or proportion; a reckoning; a scot.
King James Dictionary [2]
Shot, pret. and pp. of shoot.
Shot, n.
1. The act of shooting discharge of a missile weapon.
He caused twenty shot of his greatest cannon to be made at the king's army.
