Meaning of trundle shot | Babel Free
Definitions
A projectile used with naval artillery, made up of two lead balls joined by an iron bar 30 to 45 cm long, sharpened at both ends.
Examples
“Trundle shot is onely a bolt of iron⟳ sixteene or eighteene inches in length; at both ends sharpe pointed, and about a handfull from each end⟳ a round broad bowle of lead⟳ according to the bore of the Peece cast⟳ vpon it.”
“He writes self-magnifyingly of his successes, while pricking out the defailments of others in words as sharp-ended as trundle-shot.”
CEFR level
B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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