View example sentences, synonyms and word forms for Grapeshot.
Grapeshot
Grapeshot meaning
A cluster of small iron balls, put together in a canvas bag in order to be used as a charge for a cannon.
Example sentences (5)
Sir Ridley Scott’s latest offering, a biopic of Bonaparte, deals with the complexity with all the subtlety of an 18-pounder cannon firing grapeshot at the Royalists during the 13 Vendémiaire.
Ayton & Preston (2005) Froissart writes that such guns fired "two or three discharges on the Genoese", likely large arrows or primitive grapeshot.
The effectiveness of these cannon was limited, as they are believed to have only shot large arrows and simple grapeshot, but they were so valuable that they were directly controlled by the Royal Wardrobe.
They were awakened when British sentries discovered them and began firing grapeshot at them from across the river.
When the Hessians sounded the alarm, they tried to get several of their artillery pieces in action to pour grapeshot into the Americans marching down towards the homes they had commandeered.