shot tower

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   tower of a kind once used to make shot; molten lead was poured through a sieve and dropped into water

   Broadertower

Questions about shot tower

What does shot tower mean?

shot tower means "tower of a kind once used to make shot; molten lead was poured through a sieve and dropped into water".

Is shot tower a common word?

shot tower 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.