A metallic cylinder packed with shot and used as ammunition in a firearm.
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 .
6 I should then be able to land the gun, and take them unexpectedly on the flank with case shot .
7 The guns fired case shot , with terrible effect, and when morning dawned the position was still held by the Imperial Forces.
8 The guns fired case shot at twenty yards' range at these fierce pioneers, smashing the walls to pieces and killing many.
9 Originally dubbed "spherical case shot , " the weapon came to be called the Shrapnel shell after its 1803 adoption by the British army.
10 They plundered it-thelodges were full of coveted buffalo robes-andthen burned it down, while the deadly case shot sung through the twilight air.
11 Frederick himself had been struck from his horse by a piece of case shot , fortunately almost spent, and which failed to penetrate his thick pelisse.
12 However, if in individual cases shots were fired at the German soldiers, this may always be condoned in a country suffering invasion.
13 "Those two advanced pieces are sending a round or two of case shot into the bushes, I suppose," Lindsay said drowsily.
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