Bird shot can mean either:
- Bird shot: An incident when a bird hits an aircraft.
- Birdshot: A kind of shotgun shell.
Famous quotes containing the words bird and/or shot:
“Yet I would bear my shortcomings
With meet tranquility,
But for the charge that blessed things
I’d liefer not have be.
O, doth a bird deprived of wings
Go earth-bound wilfully!”
—Thomas Hardy (1840–1928)
“Next to a shot of some good, habit-forming narcotic, there is nothing like travelling alone as a “builder-upper.””
—Robert Benchley (1889–1945)