birdshot
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3VERB + BIRDSHOT
hit, peppered
BIRDSHOT + NOUN
pellets, shotgun
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from, with
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noun
Small lead or steel shot, as pieces of ammunition, used in shotgun shells.
In the first shooting, four of the teenagers were sitting on a porch and were peppered with birdshot from a shotgun fired from a passing car around 2:30 p.m., Sheriff John Rutherford said.
“Eyes were hit by birdshot pellets and it was deliberate, they are shooting to kill,” said the Tehran doctor. A colleague added that they had removed “20 pellets” from the body of a single protester.
A rifle or pistol cartridge containing small shot instead of a single larger projectile.
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2In the first shooting, four of the teenagers were sitting on a porch and were peppered with birdshot from a shotgun fired from a passing car around 2:30 p.m., Sheriff John Rutherford said.
Wiktionary“Eyes were hit by birdshot pellets and it was deliberate, they are shooting to kill,” said the Tehran doctor. A colleague added that they had removed “20 pellets” from the body of a single protester.
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