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▪ I. unˈshot, ppl. a.
[un-1 8 b.]
1. a. Not fired or let off.
1544Exped. Scotl. in Fragm. Sc. Hist. (1798) 14 The Scottes fledde from theyr ordinaunces, leuyng them vnshot. 1686Waller Night Piece 32 He..With Cupid's pointed Arrows plays; They, with a touch, they are so keen, Wound us unshot, and She unseen. 1899J. Milne Romance of Pro-Consul vi. 52 For his own gun, he snatched an unshot one which the man was struggling to release from its cover.
b. Not struck by a shot; not shot at.
[1755Johnson.] 1897Outing XXIX. 368/1 The deer left suddenly and unshot. Ibid., We found them easily,..and as before they whirled away unshot at to the cover.
2. Of grain: Not come into ear; not sprouted.
1854H. Miller Sch. & Schm. xxv. 527 Fields..waving with the yet unshot corn. 1893Times 8 June 12/4 Barley and oats had been lying in the soil for a long time unshot.
3. Not shot out or deposited.
1882Pall Mall G. 7 Oct. 1 France is full of the unshot, unburned rubbish of her last financial orgie.
▪ II. unˈshot, v.
(un-2 5.)
1805James Milit. Dict. (ed. 2), To unshot a gun, to take the ball out of a piece of ordnance. |