grapeshot

Examples

• All

• In 1815, the British laid some grapeshot on Dolly Madison's buns.

  Assassination (1987)

• The grapeshot that killed Casimir Pulaski, A-509-2

  Academic text (2011)

• Then there was the charging and the shooting, grapeshot and musket ball.

  Fiction book (1997)

• So I need a big, conspicuous win, particularly since we're up against guys with guns now, not just pumping out grapeshot at bare-assed spear-chuckers.

  Fiction book (2000)

• Bodies lurch backward violently in midair as grapeshot whistles through space and shatters the barricade.

  Academic text (1991)

• Perhaps Walt Whitman, nursing the sick and dying in the fetid air of the Federal hospitals of Washington, could see that it was Jesus screaming in pain on an abandoned stretcher, his legs blown to rags by grapeshot.

  Academic text (2000)

• A tinge of sadness crossed his face, his memory of the fleet-footed friend of his youth clashing with more recent memories of his brother-in-law, hobbling stiffly, if good-naturedly, on the wooden leg a round of grapeshot taken in a foreign battle had left him with.

  Fiction book (1992)

• On the day of the battle, in the span of 11 hours of continuous artillery barrages, cavalry charges, and increasingly desperate hand-to-hand fighting, enormous quantities of cannonballs of various sizes, grapeshot, musket balls, and military equipment of all kinds were expended.

  Academic text (2007)

• The artillery unit fired a barrage of grapeshot to scatter the enemy troops across the field.

• During the battle, the cannons unleashed grapeshot, causing chaos among the advancing soldiers.

Synonyms

G

grape

vsgrapeshot

• Archaic

4 9.9

Several small metal balls fired together from a cannon to hit soldiers

is the general term for ammo designed to spread and hit wide areas

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