case shot
See also: case-shot
English
Noun
case shot (plural case shots)
- (military, historical) A collection of small projectiles enclosed in a case or canister.
Usage notes
- In the United States, a case shot was a thin spherical or oblong cast-iron shell containing musket balls and an exploding charge, with a time fuse; called in Europe shrapnel. In Europe the term case shot was applied to what in the United States was called canister.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “case shot”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)