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shot tower
noun
- a tower from the top of which finely divided streams of molten lead are dropped down a central well, breaking up into spherical drops during their fall to be quenched and hardened in a tank of water at the bottom.
shot tower
noun
- a building formerly used in the production of shot, in which molten lead was graded and dropped from a great height into water, thus cooling it and forming the shot
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Origin of shot tower1
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Example Sentences
Just at this moment, something burst, and I found myself going up at the rate of two steeples and a shot-tower a second.
She made for the South East, unconsciously guided by the hieratic shot tower of Westminster.
He also, in 1799, erected a shot-tower, in which patent shot of an approved quality were made.
That's just this side of where you see the shot-tower, and runs thence four or five blocks to the right.
The high building, George's patent shot tower, G. Delamotte, del.
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