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What does birdshot mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word birdshot? Here's what it means.

Noun
  1. A small lead shot, or ammunition, used in shotgun shells.
  2. A rifle or pistol cartridge containing small shot instead of a single projectile.
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Examples
It is almost as uncommon as locating a wild turkey or jackrabbit running around Texas without a load of birdshot under its hide.
The birdshot loads have already accounted for a respectable number of venomous Mississippi snakes and I even bagged a beaver with a well-placed charge of buckshot.
We found both medium caliber projectiles which appear to be 9mm and we found birdshot from a shotgun.
Despite being summer, the temperature was below 10 and the intermittent rain stung like birdshot.
I would have been shocked if we had because he was using an air gun with an enormous piece of slug instead of birdshot.
To this end it was shot extensively with birdshot, buckshot and slugs on both static and moving targets.

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