英语词汇“stone-shot”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

单词	stone-shot
释义	stone-shot 1. [shot n.¹ 14.] Stones used as missiles, esp. as shot for cannon: cf. stone n. 5 g. Also a single stone used as a cannon-ball. 1667Pepys Diary 28 Apr., A ship of near 500 tons was there found..supposed of Queene Elizabeth's time,..with a great deal of stone-shot in her,..which was shot then in use.1712Motteux Quix. iii. viii. (1749) I. 184 The other slaves..pouring vollies of stone-shot at the guards.1876Voyle & Stevenson Milit. Dict. 410/1. 1910 Encycl. Brit. II. 685/2 [In 1807] a stone-shot weighing some 700 lb. cut the mainmast of Admiral J. T. Duckworth's flagship in two. †b. [shot n.¹ 7 b.] The act of discharging stones from a gun. Obs. 1692in Capt. Smith's Seaman's Gram. ii. xvi. 125 In loading your Gun for a Stone-shot you are not to give her the same Charge of Powder as for one of Lead or Iron. 2. [shot n.¹ 8.] = stone's throw. 1847Tennyson Princess v. 51 He show'd a tent A stone-shot off.
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