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Grapeshot   /grˈeɪpʃˌɑt/   Listen
Grapeshot

noun
1.
A cluster of small projectiles fired together from a cannon to produce a hail of shot.  Synonym: grape.






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"Grapeshot" Quotes from Famous Books



... his men down to the end of the sand island, but could not cross; for the water in the inlet proved to be seven feet deep even at low tide. Somebody had blundered about the ford. The redcoats, however, were paraded on the sandy shore while some armed boats made ready to cross the inlet. The grapeshot from two cannon, and the bullets of Colonel Thompson's riflemen, so raked the decks that the men could not stay at their posts. Memories of Bunker Hill, perhaps, made the British officers a trifle timid about crossing ...
— Hero Stories from American History - For Elementary Schools • Albert F. Blaisdell

... given above clearly show. The eye, Huxley says, was not made for the purpose of seeing, or the ear for the purpose of hearing. "According to teleology," he says, "each organism is like a rifle bullet fired straight at a mark; according to Darwin, organisms are like grapeshot, of which one hits something and the rest ...
— What is Darwinism? • Charles Hodge



Words linked to "Grapeshot" :   shot, grape, pellet



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