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Definition of Round shot
1. Noun. A solid projectile that in former times was fired from a cannon.
Definition of Round shot
1. Noun. (military artillery) A solid usually iron spherical projectile fired from a smoothbore cannon. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Round Shot
Literary usage of Round shot
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1910)
"... and if the shell has a cavity homothetic with the external ellipsoidal shape,
a fraction / of th* linear scale; then the volume of a round shot being ..."
2. The Rebellion Record: A Diary of American Events by Frank Moore, Edward Everett (1868)
"Their volleys were quick and terrible as cross-lightning ; grape, canister, shell,
and round shot pouring in all at ouce, and musket balls flying thick as ..."
3. Life and Letters of Edwin Lawrence Godkin by Edwin Lawrence Godkin (1907)
"Many were half buried and crushed under the tomb-stones, which the round-shot
and the rockets had hurled from their places, and sent flying in pieces in all ..."
4. The Americana: A Universal Reference Library, Comprising the Arts and ...by Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines by Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines (1912)
"They fired solid round-shot, case, common shell, and shrapnel shell. Solid round-shot
were made of cast iron and were used against the masonry of ..."
5. The Chronicles of Baltimore: Being a Complete History of "Baltimore Town by John Thomas Scharf (1874)
"... until morning—in all about 24 hours, during which there were thrown not less
than 1500 of these great bombe, besides many rockets and some round shot. ..."
6. The Chronicles of Baltimore: Being a Complete History of "Baltimore Town by John Thomas Scharf (1874)
"... until morning—in all about 24 hours, during which there were thrown not less
than 1500 of these great bombs, besides many rockets and some round shot. ..."
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