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First published 1971 (DOST Vol. IV).
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Muscat(t)-, Musquet-s(c)hot(t, n. [e.m.E. musket shot (1617), mosquet shot (1590).] a. Shot fired from a musket. b. The range of a musket. —a. c1650 Spalding I. 186.
And schot many mvscat schot 1681 Colvil Whig's Suppl. ii. 16.
By cannon and by musquet shotb. 1614 Melrose P. I. 147.
Newbigging, quhiche is within ane muscatt schott to the yairds 1646 Baillie II. 421.
I found five ratt musqueteers, more than ane musquet-shott at randome before their bodie 1684 Ellon Par. 138.
