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.

historical, uncountable

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.”

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