| 释义 |
double-shot, v. trans.
To load (a cannon) with a double quantity of shot. Also fig.
1824Scott Redgauntlet ch. iii, A pair of buffers..they are double-shotted. 1830Marryat King's Own xvi, The enemy..poured in a double-shotted..broadside. 1853Trench Proverbs iii. 49 [Proverbs] so rich in humour, so double-shotted with homely sense. 1859F. A. Griffiths Artil. Man. (1862) 60 Double shot the gun. |