单词 | double-shot |
释义 | double-shotv. transitive. To load (a cannon) with a double quantity of shot. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > action of propelling missile > discharge of firearms > management of artillery > operate (artillery) [verb (transitive)] > load with double shot double-shot1824 1824 W. Scott Redgauntlet II. iii. 67 A pair of buffers..they are double-shotted. 1830 F. Marryat King's Own I. xvi. 252 The enemy..poured in a double-shotted..broadside. 1853 R. C. Trench On Lessons in Proverbs iii. 49 [Proverbs] so rich in humour, so double-shotted with homely sense. 1859 F. A. Griffiths Artillerist's Man. (1862) 60 Double shot the gun. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.1824 |
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