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  2. Fishing sinker - Wikipedia

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    A fishing sinker, plummet, or knoch is a weight used in conjunction with a fishing lure or hook to increase its rate of sink, anchoring ability, and/or casting distance. Fishing sinkers may be as small as 1 gram (0.035 oz) for applications in shallow water, and even smaller for fly fishing applications, or as large as several pounds (>1 kg) or ...

  3. Shot (pellet) - Wikipedia

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    Hydrometers: use a weight made of shot, since the weight has to be poured into a narrow glass vessel. Split shot, a larger type of lead shot where each pellet is cut part-way through the diameter. This type of shot was formerly commonly used as a line weight in angling. They are no longer solely manufactured from lead but instead are often made ...

  4. List of cannon projectiles - Wikipedia

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    Essential parts of a cannon: 1. the projectile or cannonball (shot) 2. gunpowder 3. touch hole (or vent) in which the fuse or other ignition device is inserted. Round shot or solid shot or a cannonball or simply ball. A solid spherical projectile made, in early times, from dressed stone but, by the 17th century, from iron.

  5. Grapeshot - Wikipedia

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    Grapeshot. In artillery, a grapeshot is a type of ammunition that consists of a collection of smaller- caliber round shots packed tightly in a canvas bag [1] and separated from the gunpowder charge by a metal wadding, rather than being a single solid projectile. When assembled, the shot resembled a cluster of grapes, hence the name.

  6. Shotgun - Wikipedia

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    Shotgun. A shotgun (also known as a scattergun, peppergun, [1] or historically as a fowling piece) is a long-barreled firearm designed to shoot a straight-walled cartridge known as a shotshell, which discharges numerous small spherical projectiles called shot, or a single solid projectile called a slug.

  7. Glossary of curling - Wikipedia

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    A shot delivered with heavy weight and high velocity. A blast is usually intended to remove many stones from play or is used to break up and move around clustered stones. "Playing the blast" into a large cluster of stones is often a last resort shot to get the rocks split up when there are no other viable shots available. Board weight

  8. Fishing rod tapers - Wikipedia

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    Usage. Rod taper is important for several reasons. The feel for the lure being used and the fish being caught dictate the appropriate taper use. A fast action tip will be used when fishing jig type lures. The angler can feel and therefore control what the lure is doing quite easily. Since only the very tip of the rod bends, when a fish strikes ...

  9. Sanofi CEO believes company poised for growth from new drugs

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    NEW YORK (Reuters) -Sanofi's chief executive, Paul Hudson, said in an interview on Monday that the company is poised for strong growth from a variety of new drugs and is not facing imminent ...