Grapeshot

Grape′shotˊ

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Noun.

(Mil.)

A cluster, usually nine in number, of small iron balls, put together by means of cast-iron circular plates at top and bottom, with two rings, and a central connecting rod, in order to be used as a charge for a cannon. Formerly grapeshot were inclosed in canvas bags.

Grapeshot

GRA'PESHOT

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Noun.

A cluster of small shot, confined in a canvas bag, forming a kind of cylinder, whose diameter is equal to that of the ball adapted to the cannon.

grapeshot

English

Noun

grapeshot ‎(usually uncountable, plural grapeshot or grapeshots)

(historical) A cluster of small iron balls, put together in canvas bag in order to be used as a charge for a cannon.

Translations

type of shot

Arabic:
Belarusian: карце́ч f ‎(karcjéč)
Bulgarian: карте́ч (bg) m ‎(kartéč)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 葡萄彈 (zh), 葡萄弹 (zh) ‎(pútáodàn)
Czech: kartáč m
Estonian: kartetš
Finnish: kartessi (fi)
French: mitraille (fr) f
German: Kartätsche (de) f
Hungarian: kartács (hu)
Italian: mitraglia (it) f
Japanese: 葡萄弾 ‎(ぶどうだん, budōdan)
Korean: 포도탄 ‎(podotan) (葡萄彈)

Polish: kartacz (pl) m
Portuguese: metralha (pt) f
Russian: карте́чь (ru) f ‎(kartéčʹ)
Serbo-Croatian:

Cyrillic: картеч m

Roman: karteč (sh) m
Slovak: kartáč m
Spanish: metralla f
Tagalog: metralya
Turkish: misket (tr)
Ukrainian: карте́ч f ‎(kartéč)
Vietnamese: đạn (vi) chùm (vi)
Zazaki: tahnebi, kerawanki

References

grapeshot in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

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grapeshot

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