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single shot

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single shot [′siŋ·gəl ′shät]
(ordnance)
Semiautomatic operation of an automatic gun, in which the trigger must be pulled for each shot fired.


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Without moving from that spot or firing a single shot the regiment here lost another third of its men.
Both Number Twelve and Number Three had assured him that the beasts had not recaptured her, for they had seen the entire band flee madly through the jungle after hearing the report of the single shot which had so terrorized Bulan's antagonists.
At that moment a single shot rang out upon the picket-line--a lonelier and louder, though more distant, shot than ever had been heard by mortal ear
 
 
 
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