double-shot

English

Verb

double-shot (third-person singular simple present double-shots, present participle double-shotting, simple past and past participle double-shotted)

1. (transitive, military) To load (a cannon) with twice the shot, for increased damage at the expense of range.

   The Indomitable raked the frigate’s stern with double-shotted guns.

   • 1838, [Edgar Allan Poe], chapter XX, in The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket. […], New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC, pages 165–166:

     The boarding-nettings were up, the guns double-shotted with grape and canister, and the swivels loaded with canisters of musket-balls.

Adjective

double-shot (not comparable)

1. Made by molding a second layer of plastic around a plastic or metal base.

   This keyboard has double-shot keycaps, to prevent the symbols from wearing off.

Coordinate terms

• (mechanical keyboards) dye-sub