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Definition of Case shot
1. Noun. A metallic cylinder packed with shot and used as ammunition in a firearm.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Case Shot
Literary usage of Case shot
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Invasion of the Crimea: Its Origin and an Account of Its Progress Down by Alexander William Kinglake (1875)
"Their overthrow under a fire of case-shot. Their retreat pursued by of the force,
deeply echeloned, advanced on that part of Home Ridge which was the ..."
2. A Military Dictionary and Gazetteer: Comprising Ancient and Modern Military by Thomas Wilhelm (1881)
"The present 12-pounder spherical case-shot, fixed with ... The spherical case-shot
from rifle-cannon is said to be effective at over 2000 yards. ..."
3. Scientific American Reference Book by Albert Allis Hopkins, Alexander Russell Bond (1905)
"... old case shot, which consisted of a large number of balls put up in a case or
10-inch 12-inch 4-inch 5-inch 6-inch 13-inch GROUP OF COMMON SHELL AT THE ..."
4. Memoirs of Marmontel, Written by Himself: Containing His Literary and by Jean François Marmontel (1807)
"What made humanity shudder, the drownings of Carrier in the Loire, the cannonades
with case-shot of Collot-d'Herbois at Lyons, obtained honourable mention ..."
5. With Plumer in Matabeleland: An Account of the Operations of the by Frank W. Sykes, C. G. Löwinger (1897)
"His body was carried by his comrades to where the guns were stationed, fully half
a mile away, on what is now generally spoken of as " Case- Shot Kopje. ..."
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