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Definition grapeshot in British English

grapeshot noun

noun
1

ammunition consisting of a number of small iron balls fired together from a cannon

Example

Most of their bodies were torn by grapeshot or hacked by the keen-edged weapons of their adversaries.

Definition grapeshot in British English