1633 I. 79 Shott moulds.
1643 L. 318 Alsoe I give vnto him my pistill shot-mould.
1842 R. Burn 51 Coquille à boulets, shot mould [1852 reads shot-mould] consisting of two cubes of iron with a hemisphere hollowed in each.
1859 F. S. Cooper 38 Bullet and Shot Moulds.