grapeshot

• The cannon were obviously loaded with sharp grapeshot, blown out by steam. —  Amazing Stories November, 1942
• The Hanoverians are believed to have taken the upper hand, firing solid iron shots to disable the Jacobite cannons before blasting grapeshot - a gruesome mass of loosely packed metal slugs
• Neither balls nor grapeshot: everything has its end THE MAN. —  The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No. 6, December 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy
• There were stored ready for service, 440 balls for the twelve-pounders, 1255 balls for the six-pounders, 546 pounds of mixed loose grapeshot, and many other sizes of strapped and canister shot. —  Old Fort Snelling 1819-1858
• Those vaulted roofs, up there, here and there smashed by grapeshot--one's eyes are immediately lifted up by instinct to look at them, one's eyes are, as it were, drawn to them by the up-springing of all these columns, as slender as reeds, which rise in sheaves to sustain them; they have retreating curves of exquisite grace, which seem to have been imagined, so as not to allow the glances sent heavenward to fall back again. —  New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 5, August, 1915

Allen's Synonyms and Antonyms

Used in the Same Context