pot-leg

Then I saw down the hill, the flashes of guns, and soon I could hear great lumps of pot-leg screaming through the air.

Vrouw Grobelaar and Her Leading Cases Seventeen Short Stories Perceval Gibbon 1902

Then, as I rose on my knees, a great knob of pot-leg hit me in the shoulder, and I cried out and fell down.

Vrouw Grobelaar and Her Leading Cases Seventeen Short Stories Perceval Gibbon 1902

One missile, however, it was a pot-leg, struck a donkey-load and smashed a bottle of good brandy and a tin of preserved butter.

Allan and the Holy Flower Henry Rider Haggard 1890

One of the Sam-riek men, right at his elbow, uttered a pitiful cry, clutched frenziedly at his breast, from which the blood was spouting, and dropped to the ground, his chest torn to pieces by five charges of pot-leg, or stout nails, which had struck him at the same moment; while groans and screams from various parts of the enclosure showed that the little force had suffered pretty severely.

A Chinese Command A Story of Adventure in Eastern Seas Harry Collingwood 1886

"I've seen wounds like this in a man who has been hit with a piece of ` pot-leg 'or a handful of nails, but never with an ordinary bullet."

A Chinese Command A Story of Adventure in Eastern Seas Harry Collingwood 1886