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Перевод: buckshot

[существительное]
картечь ; крупная дробь

Тезаурус:

1. Baldersdale was far too remote for any of the gentry to be interested in building a country residence there All the more accessible dales had their halls, manors and castles, but the high moors sweeping up to 1,500 feet above the valley of Baldersdale was the habitat of a creature which every aristocrat, and many wealthy merchants and other nouveau riche with aristocratic pretensions pursued, then and now, with fanatical zeal - Lagopus scoticus , feathered-footed member of the Tetraonidae family, otherwise known as the red grouse For the locals it meant an extra cash crop during the days following the Glorious Twelfth - the shillings and sovereigns tossed, somewhat disdainfully, at them for providing a back-up service, such as beating the heather to alarm the birds into the air and towards the buckshot, or placing their horses and wagons at the disposal of their lordships so that ammunition, lunch and the essential bottles of whisky could be transported to the guns and the day's bag of slain birds brought safely to the all-important count.
2. A shotgun loaded with buckshot is the best weapon for anyone who has the unfortunate task of dispatching a wounded leopard in a confined space or thick cover.
3. The yellow silk square that Steve had given him was in his back pocket; eight boxes of buckshot in each saddlebag; binoculars in his combat jacket; two rolls of inch-wide parcel tape; fifty feet of light line; steel hammer and hall a dozen steel spikes; spare combat jacket and two pairs of jungle trousers; for night work, black cotton roll-neck, black tracksuit bottoms and black cotton gloves; slacks and a light jumper for Mariana.
4. Of the ten animals successfully darted, nine had buckshot or bullet wounds.
5. The local people naturally defend their crops, usually with totally inadequate weapons such as ancient shotguns loaded with buckshot.
6. Both belt and bandoleers were ready-laden with red Ely cartridges loaded with buckshot; one in the belly would blow a man apart.
7. He came across it raiding his fruit garden, unwisely wounded it with buckshot, and was chased up a tree for his trouble.