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UK
/ɡɹˈeɪpʃɒt/
]
[ US /ˈɡɹeɪpˌʃɑt/ ]
[ US /ˈɡɹeɪpˌʃɑt/ ]
NOUN
- a cluster of small projectiles fired together from a cannon to produce a hail of shot
How To Use grapeshot In A Sentence
- Using the manual option allows you to attempt to disable the enemy boat's sails with chain shot, destroy the boat's hull with cannonballs, or kill off the crew with grapeshot.
- Leading from the front, as he stepped ashore and in the act of drawing his sword, grapeshot shattered his right elbow.
- He had five lands in play. I reasoned that, if I take out the Rift Bolt, I'm increasing his chances to draw Spell plus Grapeshot .
- From the left side of the column the entire forest opened up in fire and smoke, six pound cannons pouring grapeshot into the Loyalist ranks.
- When they got to within 200 metres the French troops opened fire, reinforced by grapeshot from the two artillery pieces that had been dragged across the Sahara.
- During the action General Meade received a slight contusion from a spent grapeshot, and had two horses killed under him. Foreign and Colonial News
- An immersion theatre using the latest special effects will give visitors an idea of the bloody carnage that the relentless cannonade of grapeshot inflicted on the Jacobite lines.
- The Mahratta artillery opened fire at close range with grapeshot and chainshot, doing terrible execution.
- Closer in, guns fired grapeshot - bunches of shot about the size of snooker balls - and then case-shot - a tin container filled with musket balls.
- He had five lands in play. I reasoned that, if I take out the Rift Bolt, I'm increasing his chances to draw Spell plus Grapeshot .