hailshot

English

Etymology

From hail +‎ shot.

Noun

hailshot (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) Small shot that scatters like hailstones.
   • a. 1628 (date written), John Hayward, The Life, and Raigne of King Edward the Sixt, London: […] [Eliot’s Court Press, and J. Lichfield at Oxford?] 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

References

• “hailshot”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.