Definition of "musket-shot" [musket-shot]

• The discharge of a musket; a bullet from a musket: as, he was killed by a musket-shot. (noun)
• The range or reach of a musket. (noun)
• A musket-ball. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "Irishman William Beatty was the surgeon on HMS Victory, and on the day of the Battle of Trafalgar (21 October 1805) recorded treating scores of sailors and soldiers, stitching and amputating limbs half torn off by flying splinters of wood, or musket-shot wounds from the French sharpshooters."
• "He does not mention that the surgeon from a smaller ship not directly involved in the battle rowed over to help, nor does he mention one particular musket-shot victim: Admiral Lord Nelson, who would survive his grievous injuries just long enough to learn that the battle was won."
• "As the commandant reported to Governor Duquesne, the runner added “that M. de Jumonville was killed by a musket-shot in the head, whilst they were reading the summons; and that the English would afterwards have killed all our men, had not the Indians who were present, by rushing between them and the English, prevented their design.”"