Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

browning shot

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.40 in modern English

Syllables: brown-ing shot
IPA

21

Scrabble Score

12

Letters

2

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A haphazard shot at a group of vessels.

Example Sentences

"[…] the U-boat would ordinarily be able to have only a "browning shot" (a random shot in the hope of hitting one ship in the convoy), which might or might not hit."

Etymology

See brown (“mass of birds or animals in hunting”).

Inflected Forms

browning shots (plural)

Questions

What does browning shot mean?: A haphazard shot at a group of vessels.
Where does browning shot come from?: See brown (“mass of birds or animals in hunting”).

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