There are several types and uses of Iron shot
- Small round iron balls used as projectiles.
- Used as a simple weight.
- Large ball, 7.26 kg (16 lb) for men and 4 kg (8.8 lb) for women, used in the sporting event shot put.
Famous quotes containing the words iron and/or shot:
“Tom’s great yellow bronze mask all draped upon an iron framework. An inhibited, nerve-drawn; dropped face—as if hung on a scaffold of heavy private brooding; & thought.”
—Virginia Woolf (1882–1941)
“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)