Meanings of canister shot in inglés

Even as I watched, another oil canister shot out from the Fatimid fleet.

Four killed and two slightly injured, by canister shot, as expected.

Most of the bodies had been stripped by the canister shot explosions or sudden decompression.

He gave the foe a round of double canister shot, which opened great gaps in their ranks.

In developing his shell, Shrapnel married two existing weapons technologies, the canister shot and the delayed-action fuse.

Unlike oak splinters, teak could poison a man, kill him far more slowly and painfully than canister shot.

He must have taken some of the guardboat's deadly canister shot even while he was helping to trim the sails.

Captain Lamb, of the York artillerists; had nearly one-half of his face carried away, by a grape or canister shot.

He then came to our gun, which was already loaded with one round, a stand of grape, and a case of canister shot.

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.

As they approached a fire from fully 1,500 muskets opened on them, to which they replied with spherical, grape, and canister shot.

Smart squids in canisters shot from Mars: definitely science fiction.

" Canister shot: just the thing for us," interposed the officer.

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.

" Canister shot!" Karris said.