misshot

English

Etymology

mis- +‎ shot

Noun

misshot (plural misshots)

1. 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

misshot

1. simple past and past participle of misshoot