shot : Idioms & Phrases

• verb exercise authority or be in charge
  call the tune; wear the trousers.
  
  • Who is calling the shots in this house?

WordNet

• a belt having a pouch or compartment for carrying shot.

Webster 1913

• a cartridge containing powder and small shot, forming a charge for a shotgun.

Webster 1913

• (Naut.), a wooden frame to contain shot, secured to the coamings and ledges round the hatchways of a ship.

Webster 1913

• an instrument for measuring the diameter of round shot. Totten.

Webster 1913

• noun drill hole for a charge of an explosive
  

WordNet

• a hole made by a shot or bullet discharged.

Webster 1913

• (Naut.), a strongly framed compartment in the hold of a vessel, for containing shot.

Webster 1913

• (Naut.), the splicing of two or more cables together, or the whole length of the cables thus united.

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• (Naut.), a wooden prop covered with tarred hemp, to stop a hole made by the shot of an enemy in a ship's side.

Webster 1913

• noun tower of a kind once used to make shot; molten lead was poured through a sieve and dropped into water
  

WordNet

• a lofty tower for making shot, by dropping from its summit melted lead in slender streams. The lead forms spherical drops which cool in the descent, and are received in water or other liquid.

Webster 1913

• a window projecting from the wall. Ritson, quoted by Halliwell, explains it as a window that opens and shuts; and Wodrow describes it as a window of shutters made of timber and a few inches of glass above them.

Webster 1913