grapeshot

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Against that grape-shot, they could not hold out a quarter of an hour longer. It was absolutely necessary to deaden the blows.
在這樣的連珠炮彈轟擊下街壘在一刻鐘以后就要垮了，必須削弱它的轟擊力。
The reader will recall this angle which formed a sort of cape on the street; it afforded shelter from the bullets, the grape-shot, and all eyes, and a few square feet of space.
我們記得這拐角處形成了一個伸向大街的海岬，它形成一個幾尺見方的能擋住槍彈和霰彈、也能擋住人的視線的地方。
In the fields, branches of trees broken by grape-shot, but not fallen, upheld by their bark, swayed gently in the breeze of night.
原隔間，有些樹枝已被炮彈折斷，卻不曾落地，仍舊連皮掛在樹上，在晚風(fēng)中微微動蕩。

a mass of small iron balls that were shot together from a cannon (= big gun) in the past

ammunition for cannons consisting of a canvas tube containing a cluster of small iron or lead balls that scatter after firing