[ noun ] small lead shot for shotgun shells <noun.artifact>
Buckshot \Buck"shot`\, n. A coarse leaden shot, larger than swan shot, used in hunting deer and large game.
A single pellet of buckshot had struck the 26-year-old in the neck and penetrated the lower part of his brain, an autopsy showed.
The Bush administration ought to be setting aside some of its buckshot for the non-duck ducks.
Thirteen buckshot pellets hit him in the back, and another blast caught him in his left wrist.
The Irishmen, he said, were carrying smooth-bore long guns loaded to fire a marble-sized ball and two buckshot pellets.
But there also are long, straight rows of soybeans, wheat, rice and other crops in flat fields of sandy loam and buckshot black clay.
Reporters on the scene said dozens of demonstrators were wounded as protesters tossed rocks and police fired buckshot and tear gas.
Where circumstances permit, leopard can sometimes be drawn out of thick cover by beaters and shot on the run with 00 buckshot.
An Associated Press photographer said he saw several police and students wounded in a "hail of rocks and buckshot" during the second straight day of campus disturbances at San Marcos, Peru's largest university with about 45,000 students.
Police fired buckshot and tear gas canisters that forced the demonstrators to retreat from barricades they had thrown up in downtown Panama City.
Police fired tear gas, buckshot and water cannons when tens of thousands of people began a march on the government palace after the generally peaceful rally had ended.