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trundle shot

trundle shot noun: a projectile used with naval artillery, made up of two lead balls joined by an iron bar 30 to 45 cm long, sharpened at both ends.

Noun

trundle shot (uncountable)

  1. (historical) A projectile used with naval artillery, made up of two lead balls joined by an iron bar 30 to 45 cm long, sharpened at both ends.
    • Trundle shot is onely a bolt of iron sixteene or eighteene inches in length; at both ends sharpe pointed, and about a handfull from each end a round broad bowle of lead according to the bore of the Peece cast vpon it.1627, John Smith, chapter 14, in A Sea Grammar, London: John Haviland, page 67
    • He writes self-magnifyingly of his successes, while pricking out the defailments of others in words as sharp-ended as trundle-shot.2001, William T. Vollmann, Argall: The True Story of Pocahontas and Captain John Smith, New York: Viking, page 23

Questions about trundle shot

What does trundle shot mean?
Trundle shot means a projectile used with naval artillery, made up of two lead balls joined by an iron bar 30 to 45 cm long, sharpened at both ends.
What part of speech is trundle shot?
Trundle shot is a noun.

Words near trundle shot in the dictionary

  1. trundle along
  2. trundle bed
  3. trundle beds
  4. trundle cart
  5. trundle carts
  6. trundle shot
  7. trundle wheel
  8. trundle wheels
  9. trundle-bed
  10. trundle-beds
  11. trundlebed

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