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English
Etymology
From hail + shot.
Noun
hailshot (uncountable)
- (obsolete) Small shot that scatters like hailstones.
a. 1628 (date written), John Hayward, The Life, and Raigne of King Edward the Sixt, London: for Iohn Partridge, , published 1630, →OCLC:The Master of the Artillery did visit them sharply, with murthering Hail-shot from the Pieces mounted towards the Top of the Hill
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