powder and shot

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   ammunition consisting of gunpowder and bullets for muskets

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Questions about powder and shot

What does powder and shot mean?

powder and shot means "ammunition consisting of gunpowder and bullets for muskets".

Is powder and shot a common word?

powder and shot is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.