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Buckshot vs Backshot - What's the difference?

buckshot | backshot |

As a noun buckshot

is lead shot used in shotgun cartridges.

As an adjective backshot is

having the water introduced just behind the summit, combining the advantages of breastshot and overshot systems, since the full amount of the potential energy released by the falling water is harnessed as the water descends the back of the wheel.

buckshot

English

Noun

(-)
  • (chiefly, US) lead shot used in shotgun cartridges
  • backshot

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • (of a water wheel) Having the water introduced just behind the summit, combining the advantages of breastshot and overshot systems, since the full amount of the potential energy released by the falling water is harnessed as the water descends the back of the wheel.
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • (chiefly, sport)
  • (geology)
  • Coordinate terms

    * foreshot, midshot * undershot