Definitions for case-shot
case-shot

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1. case-shotnoun

   any mixture of stones and old iron, put into a wooden case and fired from a cannon as an anti-personnel weapon

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1. case-shot

   Canister shot is a kind of anti-personnel artillery ammunition. Canister shot has been used since the advent of gunpowder-firing artillery in Western armies. However, canister shot saw particularly frequent use on land and at sea in the various wars of the 18th and 19th century. Canister is still used today in modern artillery.

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1. case-shot

   In the U. S. service, a case-shot is a hollow cast-iron projectile filled with musket-balls. The projectile has thinner walls than the ordinary shell. To fill it a tube is inserted in the fuze-hole, the balls are introduced, and melted sulphur or rosin is poured in to fill up the interstices and keep the balls in position. When this has solidified the tube is withdrawn, leaving a vacant space for a small bursting charge. This description answers for the two kinds used,—the spherical case for the 12-pounder smooth-bore and the oblong case for rifle guns. Case-shot should be burst in the air a short distance in front of the troops fired upon. Time-fuzes are, therefore, used with both; the Bormann-fuze for the former, and the paper fuze for the latter. In Europe this ammunition is called shrapnel, from the inventor. There the term case-shot is applied to what is called in the United States canister,—that is, a thin case filled with bullets, used for short range without fuzes, the case being disrupted in the gun.

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of case-shot in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of case-shot in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of case-shot in a Sentence

1. Jim Jobling:

   It fires a shell that is about 3 inches in diameter, it could have been used as case shot, or shrapnel, on ongoing soldiers or sailors in rowboats.

References

1. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Case-Shot
2. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Case-Shot
3. ^ Military Dictionary and Gazetteer
   https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/59563/pg59563-images.html