单词 | grapeshot |
释义 | grapeshotn. Small cast iron balls, strongly connected together, so as to form a charge for cannon (see quots. 1769, 1867). 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 1747 Gentleman's Mag. July 308/2 The violence of the grape and round shot. 1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine at Shot Grape-shot is a combination of balls, put into a thick canvas bag, and corded strongly together, so as to form a sort of cylinder, whose diameter..is adapted to the cannon. 1797 R. Southey Botany Bay Eclogues in Poems 95 The chain and the grape-shot roll splintering around. 1809 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 21 446 A middle aged man, of the name of Robinson..was wounded by a grape shot. 1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. 346 A round of grapeshot consists of three tiers of cast-iron balls arranged, generally three in a tier, between four parallel iron discs connected together by a central wrought-iron pin. 1874 G. Bancroft Hist. U.S. X. x. 229 The two columns, heedless of musketry and grape-shot, gained the centre of the works nearly at the same moment. Derivatives grapeshot v. (transitive) to fire upon with grapeshot. 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)] > bombard > assail with types of missile rocket1794 shrapnelize1837 mitraille1844 grapeshot1876 shrapnel1901 whizz-bang1915 crump1916 1876 J. Ruskin Fors Clavigera VI. lxv. 145 Not until England has had to stone..some of the children she has got: or at least to grapeshot them. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online March 2021). < |
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