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ˈgrape-shot
[f. grape n.1]
Small cast iron balls, strongly connected together, so as to form a charge for cannon (see quots. 1769 and 1867).
1747Gentl. Mag. 308 The violence of the grape and round shot. 1769Falconer Dict. Marine (1780) M m b, 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. 1794Southey Botany Bay Eclog. iii, The chain and the grape-shot roll splintering around. 1809Med. Jrnl. XXI. 446 A middle aged man, of the name of Robinson..was wounded by a grape shot. 1867Smyth 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. 1876Bancroft Hist. U.S. VI. xxxix. 211 The two columns, heedless of musketry and grapeshot, gained the center of the works nearly at the same moment.
Hence grapeshot v. trans., to fire upon with grape-shot.
1876Ruskin Fors Clav. VI. lxv. 145 Not until England has had to stone..some of the children she has got: or at least to grapeshot them. |