misshot
English edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
misshot (plural misshots)
- A shot that was made incorrectly; an instance of misshooting.
- 1913, Oklahoma. Supreme Court, Oklahoma Reports - Volume 8, page 558:
- He replied that he was, but that Burns had made a misshot.
- 2010, J. Frank Dobie, Coronado's Children:
- I always figgered one of them Newton boys made a misshot and killed the horse accidentally.
- 2022, A. M. Gustafson, John Spring's Arizona, page 74:
- When I was appointed commissary sergeant, I regularly shot the cattle myself, and never made a misshot, having been trained to marksmanship in Switzerland from the age of twelve years.
Verb edit
misshot
- simple past and past participle of misshoot