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trundle shot en · NOUN

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  1. (historical, uncountable) 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.
    • 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. 1627, John Smith, chapter 14, in A Sea Grammar, London: John Haviland, page 67:
    • He writes self-magnifyingly of his successes, while pricking out the defailments of others in words as sharp-ended as trundle-shot. 2001, William T. Vollmann, Argall: The True Story of Pocahontas and Captain John Smith, New York: Viking, page 23: