case shot

British officials are followed and in some cases shot at.

In this role they fired case shot and had a range of up to about 500 yards.

The Shadow kept along the side street, stopping only to look back, in case shots were needed.

He then went on to rout some infantry with case shot.

Gang attacks once again became common and rioting cases shot up.

It ran scarlet as case shot flailed at them, but they came on.

Even Spring-fields could murder an artillery crew that got close enough to fire case shot.

Another artillery round similar to shrapnel is canister, sometimes called case shot.

That thing could go off like case shot!"

"A couple of rounds of case shot from the main armament, too?"

For example seven different fuses were used with spherical cased shot until 1850.

Barrels carried only a few rounds of case shot, for gunners seldom got the chance to use it.

Case shot are very nearly as ancient as spherical shot.

The guns' ready magazines held a mixture of roundshot and case shot.

From 1982 to 1983, the number of AIDS cases shot up 215 percent.

At the latter, while leading a regiment of grenadiers, he was hit by French case shot and knocked off his horse.

In several areas across the country, suspected Communists were arrested, driven underground, or in some cases shot.

The cannon on the ridge were still firing, presumably aiming case shot at the distant French artillery.

Type of ammunition used: Common shells, shrapnel shells and case shots.

Step out of line and we will be kettled, beaten and in exceptional cases shot.

Another vaudevillian reported that Case shot himself, and that his dying words were "Pardon me."

The outer face is a gentle slope and is designed to be covered by case shot fired from the fort's 64-pounder guns.

Every 12-pounder was loaded with case shot so that when fired it would discharge forty-two iron balls, each weighing four ounces.

The fuze was designed to function as close as 50 yards from the muzzle if required, in order to eliminate the need for case shot.

But then, provoking a British cheer, a spherical case shot fired by a howitzer exploded just ahead of the column's center.