Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The smallest size of shot. Also called mustard-seed.

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Examples

  • El – Muwaylah, but I had unfortunately twice forgotten dust-shot.

    The Land of Midian 2003

  • M. Marie afterwards took from one of the geodes a pinch of powder weighing about half a gramme, and cupelled a bright dust-shot bead weighing not less than two centigrammes.

    The Land of Midian 2003

  • At least he said he thought he was Boulson's father -- if Boulson was tall and fair, with blue eyes, and a pepper-castor mark on his right arm, where a charge of dust-shot had lodged from a horse-pistol.

    Tomaso's Fortune and Other Stories Henry Seton Merriman 1882

  • I dine with to-night is not called Boulson, but he has a charge of dust-shot -- the result of a boyish experiment -- in his right arm.

    Tomaso's Fortune and Other Stories Henry Seton Merriman 1882

  • Noting these signs the sportsman gets out his dust-shot for the snipe, and the farmer, as he sees the fieldfare flying over after a voyage from Norway, congratulates himself that last month was reasonably dry, and enabled him to sow his winter seed.

    The Amateur Poacher Richard Jefferies 1867

  • If birds are to be killed for stuffing, dust-shot will also be wanted; otherwise, it is undoubtedly better to take only one size of shot.

    The Art of Travel Shifts and Contrivances Available in Wild Countries Francis Galton 1866

  • Frenchmen of course called colibri, with ravishing reflections of green and gold, flashed like a gem thrown from shrub to shrub: this oiseau mouche is found scattered throughout Midian; we saw it even about El-Muwaylah, but I had unfortunately twice forgotten dust-shot.

    The Land of Midian — Volume 2 Richard Francis Burton 1855

  • M. M.rie afterwards took from one of the geodes a pinch of powder weighing about half a gramme, and cupelled a bright dust-shot bead weighing not less than two centigrammes.

    The Land of Midian — Volume 1 Richard Francis Burton 1855

  • John he brought out his gun loaded with dust-shot along with his pick and spade, and the first stone came he fired sharp in that direction and then loaded again.

    It Is Never Too Late to Mend Charles Reade 1849

  • There was, for instance, the cartridge charged with shot of various sizes -- from dust-shot for the killing of humming-birds and such like, up to ordinary buck-shot -- enclosed in a case so fragile that the friction of its passage along the rifling of the barrel destroyed it, causing it to crumble to dust as it emerged from the muzzle of the weapon, and leave the charge of shot free to do its work in the same manner as though fired from an ordinary shot-gun.

    With Airship and Submarine A Tale of Adventure Harry Collingwood 1886

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