Definitions for chain-shot

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Chain-Shot is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 465 anagrams from letters in chain-shot (-achhinost).

Definitions for chain-shot

noun

  1. cannon shot consisting of two balls or half balls connected by a short chain, formerly used in naval artillery to destroy the masts and sails of enemy ships.

Origin of chain-shot

First recorded in 1575-85

Examples for chain-shot

Variations of round shot were bar shot and chain shot (fig. 41), two or more projectiles linked together for simultaneous firing.

Bar shot appears in a Castillo inventory of 1706, and like chain shot, was for specialized work like cutting a ship's rigging.

At length, her fore-topmast, which had before been severely injured by a chain shot, came down with a crash upon the deck.

The brave English admiral had his leg carried off by a chain shot, and received two other wounds.

The gallant gunners, linstock in hand, watched by the guns loaded with bags of bullets and with chain shot.

As the chain shot out, Dot slipped on the wet logs, and fell into the water.

Word Value for chain-shot
Scrable

10

Words with friends

11

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