ˈcannon-shot
[see shot n.]
1. The shooting or discharge of a cannon.
| 1606 Hieron Wks. I. 46 If Hee had done it by cannon shot. 1876 Bancroft Hist. U.S. III. xiii. 199 Triple line was formed, out of reach of cannon-shot. |
2. Ammunition shot from a cannon; balls or other ‘shot’ for a cannon.
| 1591 Shakes. 1 Hen. VI, iii. iii. 79 These haughtie wordes of hers Haue battred me like roaring Cannon-shot. 1653 Urquhart Rabelais i. xxxvii, These are cannon-shot. 1687 Lond. Gaz. No. 2282/6 Ply'd with Bombs and Cannon-shot. 1871 Joaquin Miller Songs Italy (1878) 119 The hail like cannon-shot struck the sea. |
3. The distance a cannon will throw a ball; the range of a cannon.
| 1580 Sir R. Bingham in Spenser's Wks. (Grosart) I. 463, I entered the harbour..within canon shotte of the fortress. 1702 Lond. Gaz. No. 3844/4 Out of Cannon-shot of that Town. 1790 Beatson Nav. & Mil. Mem. (1804) 327 To approach within cannon-shot. |