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/gˈənʃˌɑt/ Listen

noun

Gunshot n.

Act of firing a gun; a shot.

The distance to which shot can be thrown from a gun, so as to be effective; the reach or range of a gun. "Those who are come over to the royal party are supposed to be out of gunshot."

adjective

gunshot adj. Made by the shot of a gun; as, a gunshot wound.

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Etymology of 'Gunshot'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Gunshot" Quotes from Famous Books

... man was nearly within gunshot, the captain's face began to burn, and his pulses to throb ...

— The Adventures of Captain Horn • Frank Richard Stockton

... can not kill instantly. Bullets through the brain do. I will photograph the cadavers, of course, and perform the customary post-mortem examinations for the record; but I know already what the findings will be. These four men died instantly of gunshot wounds." ...

— Subspace Survivors • E. E. Smith

... neighborhood, but from time to time brought in meagre supplies of fish, which they sold to the famished soldiers at exorbitant prices. Lest they should pay the penalty of their extortion, they would not enter the fort, but lay in their canoes in the river, beyond gunshot, waiting for their customers to come out to them. "Oftentimes," says Laudonniere, "our poor soldiers were constrained to give away the very shirts from their backs to get one fish. If at any time they shewed unto the savages the excessive price which they tooke, these ...

— Pioneers Of France In The New World • Francis Parkman, Jr.

... and, I dare say, uncertain in its upper notes; but it fetched M. Benest right-about-face again. He perceived that it came from the garden of a solitary cottage up the road, a gunshot and more beyond his signpost. But a tall hedge interrupted his view, and, though he stared long and earnestly, all he could see that day was a pea-stick nodding ...

— The Westcotes • Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch

... was nervous and had been silent so long that his vocal cords had gone off duty under the impression that their day's work was over, the word came out of him like a husky gunshot. Mamie started, and the White Hope, who had been sleeping peacefully, ...

— The Coming of Bill • P. G. Wodehouse

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