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)

1. (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