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Definition of Set shot
1. Noun. A two-handed basketball shot from a stationary position.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Set Shot
Literary usage of Set shot
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Ordnance Manual for the Use of Officers of the United States Army by United States Army. Ordnance Dept (1850)
"Formers for cylinders and Copper funnels caps, each calibre set. Shot and shell
gauges... .set. Gimlets..- Copper hammer Paste kettle Lead ladle Stencils, ..."
2. Lives of the Warriors who Have Commanded Fleets and Armies Before the Enemy by Edward Cust (1869)
"This working had that good effect that several of the enemy's ships astern, which
had kept their line, having their top-sails and fore-sails set, shot up ..."
3. Lives of the Warriors who Have Commanded Fleets and Armies Before the Enemy by Edward Cust (1869)
"This working had that good effect that several of the enemy's ships astern, which
had kept their line, having their top-sails and fore-sails set, shot up ..."
4. The Universal Anthology: A Collection of the Best Literature, Ancient by Richard Garnett, Leon i.e. Alexandre Le'on Valle'e, Léon Vallée, Alois Leonhard Brandl (1899)
"... [quickly] and anon, He set [shot] the monk to-fore the breast, To the ground
that he can [must] gone. Of two and fifty wight young yeomen There abode ..."
5. Austral English: A Dictionary of Australasian Words, Phrases, and Usages by Edward Ellis Morris (1898)
"This bird,' Mr. Caley s called Golden-eye by the set shot it at Iron Cove, seven
mi Sydney, on the Paramatta roa 1827. Vigors and Horsfield, ' tions of ..."
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