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Meanings of grapeshot in anglès

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A cluster of small projectiles fired together from a cannon to produce a hail of shot.

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        Usage of grapeshot in anglès
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        Had they raked the ravines with grapeshot the day might have been saved.
        Life of George Washington — Volume 01
        2
        The Zaporozhtzi attacked the wall fiercely, but were met with a shower of grapeshot.
        Taras Bulba, and Other Tales
        3
        Suddenly they burst forth, vomiting a deluge of grapeshot and canister upon the Austrians.
        The Companions of Jehu
        4
        The literary critics John Carey and George Steiner added a whiff of Oxbridge grapeshot.
        The Guardian
        5
        The grapeshot tore through it, and twenty-two of the English troops fell dead and wounded.
        With Clive in India; Or, The Beginnings of an Empire
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        Smoke appeared again but at irregular intervals, and grapeshot cracked and rattled onto the bridge.
        War and Peace
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        How much more suitable was grapeshot than the beatitudes.
        The Life of Napoleon I (Volume 1 of 2)
        8
        Twice they noticed the French appearing below them, and then they fired grapeshot at them.
        War and Peace
        9
        They pock the sledge like grapeshot, they ricochet and ring in the air like faery-bells.
        The system of the world
        10
        Specters volleyed out, followed within moments by hell-lance fire and grapeshot as the two forces clashed.
        Beyond The Frontier: Dreadnaught
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        I say we have now fired enough grapeshot.
        The system of the world
        12
        The said Nikola then exclaimed, 'Curse the bloodthirsty hounds,' and fired the grapeshot into the boat.
        Romance
        13
        They kept on, as Pickett's men did when the Federal guns riddled their ranks with grapeshot.
        My Year of the War / Including an Account of Experiences with th...
        14
        The hussars will get it hot!" said Nesvítski; "they are within grapeshot range now."
        War and Peace
        15
        What a difference a whiff of grapeshot makes!
        The Sun of Quebec: A Story of a Great Crisis
        16
        He thought of the dying man aboard the dismasted dhow, wounded in the stomach by grapeshot.
        Heart of oak
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        Grapeshot through the time