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单词 to fire a shot
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to fire a shot
b. An act of shooting, an individual discharge of a bow, gun, etc. Phrases, to fire a shot, also (now archaic) to make, shoot a shot (see shoot v. 21c).to fire a shot is used also in senses 13, 14b, 17.
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shotc1000
strokec1400
shooting1426
shoota1535
c1000 in A. S. Napier Old Eng. Glosses (1900) 214 Iactibus..uacuis, mid idelum gescotum.
c1435 in C. L. Kingsford Chron. London (1905) 96 In this same yere..was slayn sir Thomas Movntagu..thruh a shotte off a gonne.
1585 T. Washington tr. N. de Nicolay Nauigations Turkie ii. i. 31 b Notwithstanding wee had giuen them a shot of assurance, [they] began to prepare themselues to the fight, thinking we had bin Coursaries.
1629 Capt. Smith's Trav. & Adv. iii. 5 She stood to her defence, and made shot for shot.
1720 D. Defoe Mem. Cavalier 136 Several Regiments..Never..fired a Shot.
1818 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian xiv*, in Tales of my Landlord 2nd Ser. IV. 352 They heard a shot.
c1850 Arabian Nights (Rtldg.) 693 Prince Houssain..took his bow and made the first shot.
figurative.1596 W. Lambarde Perambulation of Kent (rev. ed.) 461 He had directed his shot at the crowne of England.
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