2d. Bring it up as high as your chin, keeping your right elbow on a level with the shoulder.
3d. Slip your left hand along the reins of the bridle, and take hold of the loop or button, which is near the upper end of the reins.
4th. Slip the loop down with the left hand as low as the pommel of the saddle.
5th. Bring the right hand down with life on the right holster-cap, quitting the reins of the bridle with both hands.
SHORT-roll. See [Signals].
SHOT. A denomination given to all kinds of balls used for artillery and fire-arms; those for cannon being of iron, and those for guns and pistols, &c. of lead.
Shot. See [Laboratory].
To find the weight of an iron Shot whose diameter is given; and the contrary. Rule. Double the cube of the diameter in inches, and multiply it by 7; so will the product (rejecting the 2 last or right hand figures) be the weight in pounds.
Example. What is the weight of an iron shot of 7 inches diameter. The cube of 7 is 343, which doubled is 686, and this multiplied by 7 produces 4802, which with the right hand figures rejected, gives 48 pounds, the weight required.