gun-shotn.
/ˈɡʌnʃɒt/, U.S. /ˈɡənˌʃɑt/ 1.
a. Shot fired from a gun or cannon; †also the shooting of guns. Now rare.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > missile > ammunition for firearms > [noun] > bullet or shot collectively > shot
gun-shot1471
shot1771
1471 Arriv. Edw. IV (Camden) 29 [They] were sore annoyed in the place where they were, as well with gonnes~shott as with shot of arrows.
1497 in M. Oppenheim Naval Accts. & Inventories Henry VII (1896) 104 Gonneshot of Iren..Ston..leed.
a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) II. f. civ [He] assaylyd this sayde Shyppe on euery parte, & bette hir wt Gunneshot, & hir men wt hayleshot.
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 889 To expresse the sounde of gonne shotte, I fynde tip tap, sip sap.
1553 in J. Strype Eccl. Memorials (1721) III. App. iii. 5 And have solemnised the said proclamation with bonfires gunshots.
1563 T. Gale Certaine Wks. Chirurg. iv. To Rdr. sig. Aaaiii When as I hadde finished my..Treatise of woundes made wyth Gonneshotte.
1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 492 Whensoener [sic] they are hunted with Dogs, they run directly to the woods or to the next trees, wherein they are killed by gun-shot.
1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage 269 With shouting, singing, hallowing, gun-shot and fire-workes all that night.
1632 R. Sherwood Dict. in R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues (new ed.) Gun-shot, arquebusade; canonnade.
1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. III. xi. 39 Gun~shots were wildly fired in all directions.
b. figurative.
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1551 R. Robinson tr. T. More Vtopia sig. Aiiiv Beynge..sauffe, and as sayth the prouerbe, out of all daunger of gonneshotte.
1575 G. Gascoigne Good Morrow 64 As with gonnes we kill the Crowe For spoyling our releefe, The Deuill so must we ouerthrowe, With gonshote of beleefe.
1577 T. Vautrollier tr. M. Luther Comm. Epist. to Galathians (new ed.) f. 19 With such gun~shot and artillerie must the Papacie be destroyed.
1581 J. Bell tr. W. Haddon & J. Foxe Against Jerome Osorius 305 Being supported by the Popes authoritie, and armed with the gunneshotte of his excommunication.
1635 G. Wither Coll. Emblemes 112 The gunshot of a slanderous tongue may smite.
c. Heraldry. = pellet n.1, ogress n.1 (Cf. gunstone n. 2.)
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1828 in W. Berry Encycl. Her.
2. † b. transferred and figurative. within (out of, past, beyond) (the) gunshot (of): within, beyond reach (of); within, out of the sphere of influence (of).
a. The range of a gun or cannon; the distance to which a shot can be effectively thrown from a gun. Chiefly out of gunshot, within gunshot.
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the world > space > distance > [noun] > limit of distance or reach > to which a thing may be shot > specific
bowshotc1300
bow-draughtc1400
buck-shot1447
flight-shot1455
gun-shot1532
bird bolt shot1570
cannon shot?1571
pistol shot1608
bolt's-shoot1677
rifle shot1803
gun-reach1825
rifle range1830
gun-range1852
1532 T. More Confut. Tyndale in Wks. 366/1 Prouiding alwai that your selfes ye chief captaines..stand and loke vpon sure and safe a syde halfe out of al gunshot.
1540 T. Cranmer Prol. or Pref. in Bible (Great) sig. ✠v They sytte farre from the strokes of battayll, and farre out of gonneshoute, and therfore they be but seldome wounded.
1631 J. Mabbe tr. de Rojas Celestina (1894) xi. 191 Hee is out of gun-shot, that rings the bell to the battell.
1676 S. Sewall Diary 1 July (1973) I. 18 Mr. Hezekiah Willet slain by Naragansets, a little more than Gun-shot off from his house.
1696 London Gaz. No. 3219/2 On the 20th appeared..21 French Galleys.., who Anchored out of Gun Shot.
1748 B. Robins & R. Walter Voy. round World by Anson ii. v. 171 [They] perceived a light, which they chased, till they arrived within gun-shot.
1805 E. Berry in Ld. Nelson Disp. & Lett. (1846) VII. 117 (note) The Three-decker was within gun-shot of us at day-break.
1845 G. P. R. James Arrah Neil I. vi. 123 They were half across the meadows, about half a gun-shot from the alders.
1879 R. Jefferies Amateur Poacher iii. 51 They [mallards] were always out of gunshot.
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the world > action or operation > safety > perfectly safe [phrase] > beyond danger of something
out of gunshot1556
lash1577
without the peril of1600
the world > existence and causation > existence > state or condition > tendency > [phrase] > within reach or influence
within gunshot1556
1556 J. Heywood Spider & Flie lxv. 77 Marching toward the copweb, within goon shot.
1571 A. Golding tr. J. Calvin Psalmes of Dauid with Comm. (xxxv. 8) They..feare nothing, as though they were quite out of all gonneshot.
1593 T. Nashe Christs Teares 76 They might haue..lyu'd out of gunshot of misery.
1612 T. Taylor Αρχὴν Ἁπάντων: Comm. Epist. Paul to Titus ii. 12 If he can..liue out of the gunshot of the lawe.
1642 D. Rogers Naaman 459 Set me beyond gun-shot of all corruptions.
1678 J. Bunyan Pilgrim's Progress (ed. 2) 145 You are not yet out of the gun-shot of the Devil.
1687 J. Dryden Hind & Panther To Rdr. sig. A3 Those who are come over to the Royal Party are consequently suppos'd to be out of Gunshot.
3. A pistol.
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1663 S. Butler Hudibras: First Pt. i. ii. 131 With hasty rage he snatch'd His Gun-shot, that in holsters watch'd.
Compounds
attributive and in other combinations, as gunshot-distance, gunshot-fracture, gunshot-wound.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > injury > [adjective] > wounded > shot
shot1837
gun-shot1879
shot1934
shotgunned1981
1672 R. Wiseman Treat. Wounds ii. 1 Great hath been the Contention amongst the Learned about fire and venom in Gun-shot-wounds.
1835–6 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. I. 227/1 Gun-shot wounds..are not often followed by hæmorrhage.
1837 W. Irving Capt. Bonneville (1849) 207 The rider..discovered an Indian fort within gunshot distance.
1842 E. S. Abdy tr. R. von Falkenstein Water Cure (1843) 109 His success in treating gun-shot wounds with cold water was most remarkable.
1879 St. George's Hosp. Rep. 9 399 Gunshot fracture of the humerus.
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