gunshot
/ˈɡʌn.ʃɑt/ noun B2- The discharging a firearm.
- The firing of guns; gunfire. · they heard gunshot all around them· the sound of distant gunshot
- The distance to which shot can be thrown from a gun; the reach or range of a gun.
- A bullet, projectile, or other shot fired from a gun.
Plural gunshots
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“But the gunshot was apparently the cause of death.
We are in the presence, therefore, of a deliberate conspiracy upon the part of the two people who heard the gunshot—of the man Barker and of the woman Douglas.
The next morn broke off the coast of Aleria; all day they coasted, and in the evening saw fires lighted on land; the position of these was no doubt a signal for landing, for a ship’s lantern was hung up at the mast-head instead of the streamer, and they came to within a gunshot of the shore.
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