grapeshot

IPA: grˈeɪpʃɑt

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

Examples of "grapeshot" in Sentences

In short, he got Borked at Leipzig. grapeshot says:
Yesterday I could not remember the correct word so used grapeshot.
"Armies still use what we could call grapeshot in tank rounds, which fire what is effectively ball bearings.
It would be clean and it would have no magic bullet, only a magic spray of grapeshot (Al Gore called it buckshot) spread across all regions.
Laurence Underhill/eyevine/Zuma Press Protesters threw rocks at lines of police who respond with tear gas and grapeshot on Mansour Street, next to the Interior Ministry building.
Marchons! "and at every word grapeshot fell to the ground, for the Colonel, in spite of the suggestions of war, was peacefully engaged, being seated on the top of a pair of steps thinning out the grapes which hung from the roof.
There were three varieties of this: for long-range work (up to 600 yards) a smaller number of larger balls were contained in the tin (sometimes referred to as grapeshot); for closer ranges, more numerous but smaller projectiles were packed into the container (sometimes termed langridge); and a third type, called “bar shot,” consisted of a solid iron bar running down the center of the tin with musket balls packed around it.