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grapeshot
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Definition:small iron balls fired in clusters from a cannon, as pellets from a shotgun, only larger and inflicting far more damage
photo: By Dagjoh - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=31341901---n. An argument which the future is preparing in answer to the demands of American Socialism.Ambrose Bierce. The Devil's Dictionary (1911)
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“Oh, if they ran away, then we’d have grape-shot or Cossacks with whips behind them,” said the prince.
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[...] I gave him a dose of grape and cannister which tore his ensign to ribbons and spoiled the looks of his hull materially. [...].
His vessel was seriously harmed by my grape-shot; his carpenter was slain during the action; and three of his seaman were lingering with desperate wounds.
Brantz Mayer. Captain Canot; Or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver (1854)
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“He told me he’d lost it by grape shot, but I didn’t think to ask about the details.”
“Aye, a grape-shot wound in the leg went bad. The surgeons took it off to keep it from poisoning his blood.”
Diana Gabaldon. Outlander (1991)
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“Colonel,” interrupted the officer of the suite, “You must be quick or the enemy will bring up his guns to use grapeshot.”
Leo Tolstoy. War and Peace: With bonus material from Give War and Peace A Chance by Andrew D. Kaufman . Simon & Schuster
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the front of the square parted, permitted the passage of an eruption of grape-shot, and closed again.
Victor Hugo. Les Misérables (1862)
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