A metallic cylinder packed with shot and used as ammunition in a firearm.
1Even as I watched, another oil canister shot out from the Fatimid fleet.
2Four killed and two slightly injured, by canister shot, as expected.
3Most of the bodies had been stripped by the canister shot explosions or sudden decompression.
4He gave the foe a round of double canister shot, which opened great gaps in their ranks.
5In developing his shell, Shrapnel married two existing weapons technologies, the canister shot and the delayed-action fuse.
6Unlike oak splinters, teak could poison a man, kill him far more slowly and painfully than canister shot.
7He must have taken some of the guardboat's deadly canister shot even while he was helping to trim the sails.
8Captain Lamb, of the York artillerists; had nearly one-half of his face carried away, by a grape or canister shot.
9He then came to our gun, which was already loaded with one round, a stand of grape, and a case of canister shot.
10Then the enemy ship had put missiles into the guts of the hulk with warheads of what the FORCE: space people quaintly called canister shot.
11As they approached a fire from fully 1,500 muskets opened on them, to which they replied with spherical, grape, and canister shot.
12Smart squids in canisters shot from Mars: definitely science fiction.
13" Canister shot: just the thing for us," interposed the officer.
14Canister 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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