A metallic cylinder packed with shot and used as ammunition in a firearm.
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Examples for "canister "
Examples for "canister "
1 TIRED Milk canister must be removed to gain access to water tank.
2 Muldoon had taken down the launcher, and was loading the second canister .
3 And she was pleased to take the canister in her own hand.
4 I gripped the gas canister and prayed for the light to change.
5 Each copper canister was marked with electrical tape regarding its fullness level.
1 The projectiles are of three kinds-ordinaryshells, shrapnel shells, and case shot .
2 The guns used round shot, grape, and case shot ; mortars and howitzers fired bombs and carcasses.
3 He was struck from his horse by a piece of case shot , but his pelisse saved him.
4 A moment later, a "spherical- case shot " followed the shell.
5 Sagschuetz won, the king followed the advancing line, and the air was alive with bullets and case shot .
1 Even as I watched, another oil canister shot out from the Fatimid fleet.
2 Four killed and two slightly injured, by canister shot , as expected.
3 Most of the bodies had been stripped by the canister shot explosions or sudden decompression.
4 He gave the foe a round of double canister shot , which opened great gaps in their ranks.
5 In developing his shell, Shrapnel married two existing weapons technologies, the canister shot and the delayed-action fuse.
6 Unlike oak splinters, teak could poison a man, kill him far more slowly and painfully than canister shot .
7 He must have taken some of the guardboat's deadly canister shot even while he was helping to trim the sails.
8 Captain Lamb, of the York artillerists; had nearly one-half of his face carried away, by a grape or canister shot .
9 He then came to our gun, which was already loaded with one round, a stand of grape, and a case of canister shot .
10 Then the enemy ship had put missiles into the guts of the hulk with warheads of what the FORCE: space people quaintly called canister shot .
11 As they approached a fire from fully 1,500 muskets opened on them, to which they replied with spherical, grape, and canister shot .
12 Smart squids in canisters shot from Mars: definitely science fiction.
13 " Canister shot : just the thing for us," interposed the officer.
14 Canister shot , in use since the 1400s, burst upon leaving the gun's muzzle and was originally used in small arms at close range against infantry.
15 " Canister shot ! " Karris said.
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