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ˈiron-shot, a. Min.
[f. as prec. + shot, pa. pple. of shoot v.]
‘Shot’ with iron; containing streaks or markings of iron.
1796Kirwan Elem. Min. (ed. 2) I. 293 Is it not rather an iron-shot quartz? Ibid. 390 Iron shot hornstones. 1821R. Jameson Man. Min 93 Slaggy Ironshot Copper-Green. 1847–8H. Miller First Impr. i. (1857) 15 They [potatoes] were freckled over with minute circular spots, that bore a ferruginous tinge, somewhat resembling the specks on iron⁓shot sandstone. 1858G. P. Scrope Geol. Centr. France (ed. 2) 171 Many varieties are much iron-shot. |