A kind of case shot for cannon, in which a number of lead or iron balls in layers are inclosed in a case fitting the gun; -- called also canister shot.
A form of case shot where the projectiles are placed in a thin walled, cylindrical container that disintegrates upon firing. This creates a giant shotgun effect.
The cylindrical tin container holding many small iron balls, the whole referred to as case shot. An anti-personnel load which turned a cannon into a giant shotgun.
Artillery projectile of lead balls in a tin container. Resembled a giant shotgun cartridge and had similar effect over a short range.
type of artillery projectile consisting of a number of pellets in a cylindrical container.
a metallic cylinder packed with shot and used as ammunition in a firearm
Anti-personnel ammunition, consisting of a tinned-iron can full of iron or lead balls packed in sawdust. For more explanation, see the Ammunition page.
A closed cylinder that houses a rotating turbine assembly.
A canvas or cloth bag filled with small round lead or iron pellets and crammed into a cannon on top of a charge of gunpowder. It would not carry as far as solid shot, but it was deadly at close range.
Small iron balls fired from a cannon with the effect of a shotgun, scattering shot in all directions.
A projectile, shot from a cannon, filled with about 35 iron balls the size of marbles that scattered like the pellets of a shotgun.