doubleshotとは 意味・読み方・使い方

動詞

double-shot (三人称単数 現在形 double-shots, 現在分詞 double-shotting, 過去形および過去分詞形 double-shotted)

1. (transitive, military) To load (a cannon) with twice the shot, for increased damage at the expense of range.

   The Indomitable raked the frigate’s stern with double-shotted guns.

   • 1838, [Edgar Allan Poe], chapter XX, in The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket. […], New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC, pages 165–166:

     The boarding-nettings were up, the guns double-shotted with grape and canister, and the swivels loaded with canisters of musket-balls.