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.
在这样的连珠炮弹轰击下街垒在一刻钟以后就要垮了，必须削弱它的轰击力。
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.
我们记得这拐角处形成了一个伸向大街的海岬，它形成一个几尺见方的能挡住枪弹和霰弹、也能挡住人的视线的地方。
In the fields, branches of trees broken by grape-shot, but not fallen, upheld by their bark, swayed gently in the breeze of night.
原隔间，有些树枝已被炮弹折断，却不曾落地，仍旧连皮挂在树上，在晚风中微微动荡。

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