browning shot

noun

browning shot

noun

Etymology See brown (“mass of birds or animals in hunting”).

1

Government, Military, Naval, Navy, Politics, War A haphazard shot at a group of vessels.

[…] the U-boat would ordinarily be able to have only a "browning shot" (a random shot in the hope of hitting one ship in the convoy), which might or might not hit.2014, Arthur J. Marder, From the Dreadnought to Scapa Flow, volume IV, page 132:

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