Bird Shot

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:

    Time, as is well known, sometimes flies like a bird and sometimes crawls like a worm, but human beings are generally particularly happy when they don’t notice whether it’s passing quickly or slowly.
    Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev (1818–1883)

    Mead had studied for the ministry, but had lost his faith and took great delight in blasphemy. Capt. Charles H. Frady, pioneer missionary, held a meeting here and brought Mead back into the fold. He then became so devout that, one Sunday, when he happened upon a swimming party, he shot at the people in the river, and threatened to kill anyone he again caught desecrating the Sabbath.
    —For the State of Nebraska, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)