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Значения термина canister shot на английском

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A metallic cylinder packed with shot and used as ammunition in a firearm.

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Использование термина canister shot на английском
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Even as I watched, another oil canister shot out from the Fatimid fleet.
Siege of heaven
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Four killed and two slightly injured, by canister shot, as expected.
Heart of oak
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Most of the bodies had been stripped by the canister shot explosions or sudden decompression.
The Hyperion Cantos
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He gave the foe a round of double canister shot, which opened great gaps in their ranks.
School History of North Carolina : from 1584 to the present time
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In developing his shell, Shrapnel married two existing weapons technologies, the canister shot and the delayed-action fuse.
Wired
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Unlike oak splinters, teak could poison a man, kill him far more slowly and painfully than canister shot.
For my Country’s Freedom
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He must have taken some of the guardboat's deadly canister shot even while he was helping to trim the sails.
The Only Victor
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Captain Lamb, of the York artillerists; had nearly one-half of his face carried away, by a grape or canister shot.
Picturesque Quebec : a sequel to Quebec past and present
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He then came to our gun, which was already loaded with one round, a stand of grape, and a case of canister shot.
Ned Myers, or, a Life Before the Mast
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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.
The Hyperion Cantos
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As they approached a fire from fully 1,500 muskets opened on them, to which they replied with spherical, grape, and canister shot.
The Three Midshipmen
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Smart squids in canisters shot from Mars: definitely science fiction.
The Guardian
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" Canister shot: just the thing for us," interposed the officer.
Field and Forest; Or, The Fortunes of a Farmer
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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.
Wired
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" Canister shot!" Karris said.
The black prism
Translations for canister shot
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