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Meaning of "grapeshot"
Grapeshot is a noun referring to a cluster of small iron balls or lead pellets fired from a cannon
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- A cluster of small iron balls, put together in a canvas bag in order to be used as a charge for a cannon.
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And he shot what they call grapeshot.
A blast of grapeshot might sweep the deck clean.
His throat had been ripped out by grapeshot.
He also developed a form of grapeshot for use by artillery.
They are to fire our site on ball and grapeshot.
Load it with grapeshot in case.
They could also be used to fire grapeshot.
Three grapeshot from the next broadside killed him.
From dawn we were raked with grapeshot.
Grapeshot stores the categories of story you have been exposed to.
The caress and the grapeshot.
But grapeshot had mowed down too many of these heroes.
As he was carried below he was hit by grapeshot and killed outright.
Grapeshot was the starting point for the creation of shrapnel.
Model of a carronade with grapeshot ammunition.
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Grapeshot was fired into the marsh to discourage any further sharpshooting.
It could also fire grapeshot.
Bonaparte used cannon and grapeshot to clear the streets of demonstrators.
Grapeshot and round shot were some of the early projectiles used in smoothbores.
Bags of cannon grapeshot.
He refused and three grapeshot from the next broadside killed him.
The confrontation ends when he gives the order for rounds of grapeshot from his artillery.
They were met with a barrage of grapeshot and canister from newly converted gunboats.
It was put down by Napoleon with a whiff of grapeshot.
This is grapeshot.
And do not tell us you are going to deny knowing anything about Grapeshot Pomeroy.
Already a grapeshot had struck Nelson in the right elbow.
They retreated when Spanish artillery bombarded their position with grapeshot.
Conflicts in which grapeshot was effectively used include,.
Neill was seriously wounded when a fragment of a Mexican grapeshot caught him in the hip.
Eyre 's men fired grapeshot from a small cannon and slowly pushed the militiamen uphill.
Yevgeny Krestovsky was singing in the gunpowder magazine under shrapnel and grapeshot gunfire.
When used in naval warfare, grapeshot served a dual purpose.
The British were rowing against a strong current and under a heavy fire of round and grapeshot.
In such a battle, the grapeshot gun shooter could take the initiative to approach the target.
Nor will I force them out onto the moor again to face the English grapeshot.
Close-up of grapeshot from an American Revolution sketch of artillery devices.
She suffered only one casualty, a man slightly wounded by a splinter of grapeshot.
Preserved. This grapeshot belonged to the Russian galley fleet and was.
During this charge, d'Hautpoul was struck by artillery grapeshot and badly wounded.
Why risk grapeshot over some grapes?
Calmly, smiling beneath the English grapeshot.
Projectiles, iron grapeshot or stone.
I have tried that before. All these strange bits fly out like grapeshot.
Guns number four and five, grapeshot fire on the infantry!
As they advanced toward the fort, the force came under British grapeshot fire.
A sabre cut, a bullet wound, grapeshot there, sustained all at once, they would have proved fatal.
Infamously, he cleared the streets of Paris by firing grapeshot at rebels.
Hussite Wars, Grapeshot was used in cannons and hand cannons ( píšťala ).
This is very dangerous and I'm not sure if Grapeshot understands.
