round shot meaning
ENWRound shot
- Round shot (or solid shot, or a cannonball, or simply ball) is a solid projectile without explosive charge, fired from a cannon.
- Round shot was made in early times from dressed stone, referred to as gunstone (Middle English gunneston, from gonne, gunne gun + stoon, ston stone) but by the 17th century, from iron.
- Grapeshot and round shot were some of the early projectiles used in smoothbores.
- Round shot was used by naval guns during most of the age of sail, being replaced after the invention by Benjamin Robins of the extruded bullet around the mid-19th century.
- Noun
- (military, artillery) A solid usually iron spherical projectile fired from a smoothbore cannon.
- Just then, with a roar and a whistle, a round-shot passed high above the roof of the log-house and plumped far beyond us in the wood. Treasure Island (1883), Robert Louis Stevenson
- (military, artillery) A solid usually iron spherical projectile fired from a smoothbore cannon.
Definition of round shot in English Dictionary
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Source: Wiktionary
Grammatically, this idiom "round shot" is a noun, more specifically, a noun form, an invariant noun, an irregular plural, a nouns with irregular plural and a countable noun.