dust shot
noun
the smallest size of shot for use in a shotgun.
Origin of dust shot
First recorded in 1790–1800
Words nearby dust shot
Example sentences from the Web for dust shot
It was approached close enough to be shot with a 22 caliber pistol loaded with dust-shot.
Summer Birds From the Yucatan Peninsula |Erwin E. KlaasIn such an auxiliary barrel use 32-calibre shells loaded with dust-shot instead of bullets.
Elementary Zoology, Second Edition |Vernon L. KelloggI shoot them with light charges of dust-shot, fired from my collecting gun.
Manual of Taxidermy |Charles Johnson Maynard
British Dictionary definitions for dust shot
dust shot
noun
the smallest size of shot for a shotgun