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round shot (plural round shot)
- (military, weaponry) A solid, usually iron, spherical projectile fired from a smoothbore cannon.
- Just then, with a roar and a whistle, a round-shot passed high above the roof of the log-house and plumped far beyond us in the wood. Treasure Island (1883), Robert Louis Stevenson
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