POWDER AND SHOT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does powder and shot mean? 

• POWDER AND SHOT (noun)
  The noun POWDER AND SHOT has 1 sense:

1. ammunition consisting of gunpowder and bullets for muskets

  Familiarity information: POWDER AND SHOT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• POWDER AND SHOT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Ammunition consisting of gunpowder and bullets for muskets

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("powder and shot" is a kind of...):

ammo; ammunition (projectiles to be fired from a gun)

 Context examples 

“As for powder and shot, we'll do. But the rations are short, very short—so short, Dr. Livesey, that we're perhaps as well without that extra mouth.”

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

We left a good stock of powder and shot, the bulk of the salt goat, a few medicines, and some other necessaries, tools, clothing, a spare sail, a fathom or two of rope, and by the particular desire of the doctor, a handsome present of tobacco.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

I had heard the word, and I knew it stood for a horrible kind of punishment common enough among the buccaneers, in which the offender is put ashore with a little powder and shot and left behind on some desolate and distant island.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)