Grapeshot is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for GRAPESHOT in dictionary:

NOUN:
• clustered iron shot that scatters when fired
• ammunition consisting of a number of small iron balls fired together from a cannon.
• bullets which scatter when fired
• A cluster, usually nine in number, of small iron balls, put together by means of cast-iron circular plates at top and bottom, with two rings, and a central connecting rod, in order to be used as a charge for a cannon. Formerly grapeshot were inclosed in canvas bags.
• a cluster of small projectiles fired together from a cannon to produce a hail of shot
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• an antipersonnel weapon consisting of a cluster of small iron balls shot from a cannon

Words related to GRAPESHOT

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Words that contain GRAPESHOT

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How to use GRAPESHOT in a sentence

• A grape-shot, after passing through a post and a board, had struck him in the hip, bruising, but not penetrating or breaking.
• The Zaporozhtzi attacked the wall fiercely, but were met with a shower of grapeshot.
• The Cossacks had hardly retreated from the wall before the grape-shot rained down.
• The twelve-pounder was pushed forward, and, as fast as the expert French gunners could reload it, the terrible charges of grape-shot were sent among the rangers.
• When he returned to Bagswell, he found the historical painter with eyes the size of grape-shot, at the sublime impudence of the man.
• There being two sizes of grape-shot, and one of musket-balls, we have three kinds of canister-shot calculated to reach at different distances.
• Nelson had been struck by a grapeshot in the right elbow, as, with sword drawn, he was stepping from the boat to the landing.
• The number of victims destroyed by the guillotine or grape-shot at Lyons, to this date, amounted to somewhat more than five thousand.
• Two rounds of grape-shot crashing through the branches dispersed the party, but afterwards they moved two of the canoes out of sight.
• On this latter leaf may be seen standing a cigar-lighter made out of grapeshot picked up in camp during the siege.
• Answering a question on the part of one of the prisoners, a German officer told them that they were going to taste some of the Belgian grapeshot before Antwerp.
• The left of the French army, which was in hollow ground, about forty paces from the English, was crushed to pieces by the fire of their artillery loaded with grape-shot.
• Grape-shot have not sufficient penetration to be used with effect, generally, against ships-of-war beyond 150 yards.
• Mortars can also be fired with a bag of one-pound balls, or ordinary grape-shot, with very reduced charges, and a wad between the powder and the balls.
• Two grape-shot, making one wound, had crashed right into his chest and through the heart.
• Down swept the grape-shot, tearing ghastly passages through them.
• They scrambled up just as the fire of grape-shot opened.
• Captain Porter was wounded in the head with a grape-shot, and lost the use of one leg in the engagement.
• He landed in Aboutir Bay on the 8th of March, in the very face of the French, and under a heavy fire of grape-shot from artillery, as well as from the cannon of Aboukir castle.
• Volleys of grape-shot were poured on our columns in front and flank as they advanced, and they were equally assailed from the house-tops.
• The fugitives were cut down by the pursuing Americans, who followed to the immediate defences of the capital, where the pursuit was checked by a heavy fire of grape-shot.
• Anyway, the twenty captives were not restored till two other ships had entered port, and sent some Kolosh canoes to bottom with grape-shot.
• The Paris mob, for example, made a similar blunder on the 13th Vendemiaire, when Bonaparte settled matters by the famous whiff of grape-shot.
• Indeed, on the 2nd, peals of thunder were heard, the wind blew from the east, and hail rattled against the facade of Granite House like volleys of grape-shot.
• Crashing and thundering danced the grape-shot around him.
• The effects of the rockets and grape-shot, produced so extensive an alarm amongst the enemy, that they fled in all directions, and were at last completely routed.
• A charge of grape-shot came in at one of our portholes, which dangerously wounded four or five of our men, among whom was our third lieutenant, Mr.
• She remained standing there alone and unnoticed, for the street was swept clear as if by grapeshot of the very few persons who might otherwise have been in it at that hour.
• Grapeshot and canister were poured into the advancing Mexicans.

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