round shot
Noun
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Noun
round shot
- (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
- (solid spherical projectile) cannon ball, solid shot
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