grapeshot

English

The remains of some quilted grapeshot in a museum

Etymology

grape +‎ shot, named for the resemblance of the bag of shot to a bunch of grapes.

Noun

grapeshot (usually uncountable, plural grapeshot or grapeshots)

(historical) A cluster of small iron balls, put together in a canvas bag in order to be used as a charge for a cannon.

Translations

type of shot

Arabic: please add this translation if you can
Belarusian: карце́ч f (karcjéč)
Bulgarian: карте́ч (bg) m (kartéč)
Catalan: metralla (ca) f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 葡萄彈／葡萄弹 (zh) (pútáodàn)
Czech: kartáč (cs) m
Estonian: kartetš
Finnish: kartessi (fi)
French: mitraille (fr) f
German: Traubenkartätsche f, Kartätsche (de) f
Hebrew: קֶלַע אֶשְׁכּוֹל (he) m (kela eshkol)
Hungarian: kartács (hu)
Italian: mitraglia (it) f
Japanese: 葡萄弾 (ぶどうだん, budōdan)
Korean: 포도탄(葡萄彈) (podotan)
Polish: kartacz (pl) m
Portuguese: metralha (pt) f
Russian: карте́чь (ru) f (kartéčʹ)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: картеч m

Roman: karteč (sh) m
Slovak: kartáč (sk) m
Spanish: metralla f
Swedish: druvhagel n
Tagalog: metralya
Turkish: misket (tr)
Ukrainian: карте́ч f (kartéč)
Vietnamese: đạn (vi) chùm (vi)
Zazaki: tahnebi, kerawanki

References

“grapeshot”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Further reading

grapeshot on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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