Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Upshot

Upshot , noun

[Up + shot, equivalent to scot share, reckoning. Compare the phrase to cast up an account.]

Final issue; conclusion; the sum and substance; the end; the result; the consummation.
I can not pursue with any safety this sport to the upshot. — Shakespeare
We account it frailty that threescore years and ten make the upshot of man's pleasurable existence. — De Quincey