| 单词 | cross-bar shot |
| 释义 | > as lemmascross-bar shot cross-bar shot n. originally a ball with a bar projecting on each side of it; later, a projectile which expanded on leaving the gun into the form of a cross, with one quarter of the ball at each radial point: cf. bar-shot n. at bar n.1 Compounds 2. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > missile > ammunition for firearms > [noun] > bullet or shot collectively > shot > of large guns fricasseec1575 murdering shot1583 chain-shota1586 crossbar1589 cross-bar shot1591 case shot1599 langrel1627 trundle-shot1627 partridge1635 chain-bullet1636 pelican1639 case1642 spike-shota1661 double-head1678 double-headed shot1678 partridge-shot1683 grape1687 burrel-shot1706 double1707 angel-shot1730 grapeshot1747 star shot1753 bar-shot1756 langrage1769 canister1801 stang-ball1802 chain1804 canister-shot1809 tier-shot1828 pot-leg1852 six-pounder1855 shunt shot1864 sand-shot1867 mitraille1868 1591 W. Raleigh Rep. Fight Iles of Açores sig. B2v Discharged with crossebarshot. 1627 J. Smith Sea Gram. xiv. 67 Crosbar-shot is also a round shot, but it hath a long spike of Iron cast with it as if it did goe thorow the middest of it. 1768 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued II. ii. 213 Something like the chain or cross bar shot used in sea engagements, only instead of a bar between, the whole consisted of seven balls. 1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Cross-bar-shot..when folded it presented a..complete shot. < as lemmas |
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