Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A trade-name for an insecticide preparation used to protect plants from grubs, etc., containing as its active constituent a small proportion of copper arsenite.
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Examples
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One of the men had sprayed them with both slug-shot and kerosene emulsion to no effect, – and so no Asters.
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They are sprayed with slug-shot three times between April tenth and May fifteenth, when they get a thorough spraying with kerosene emulsion, and, as a result, my Roses are not troubled with the usual pests.
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Gavegan, gripping his right arm, with that bone-crushing slug-shot itching for instant use, was apparently master in the present circumstances.
Children of the Whirlwind Leroy Scott 1902
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In this meeting two women came, armed with a cudgel and a slug-shot.
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