Dictionary.net

of Shot

of Shot

Loaded or charged with shot; bar-shot, a bar of metal with a round head at each end, formerly discharged as shot from guns; case-shot or canister, balls packed in tin canisters in the form of cylinders, having wooden bottoms, and fitted to the calibre of guns; chain-shot, two half-balls united by a chain; grape-shot, a number of shot so arranged as to resemble a bunch of grapes, formerly used to load guns; red-hot shot, shot heated to redness in a furnace, and in this state fired from a gun; round-shot, a solid sphere of iron or other material as loading for a gun.