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单词 grapeshot
释义

grapeshotn.

Etymology: < grape n.1Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈgrape-shot.
Small cast iron balls, strongly connected together, so as to form a charge for cannon (see quots. 1769, 1867).
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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.
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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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