The Collaborative International Dictionary
Case shot \Case" shot`\ (Mil.) A collection of small projectiles, inclosed in a case or canister.
Note: In the United States a case shot is a thin spherical or
oblong cast-iron shell containing musket balls and a
bursting charge, with a time fuse; -- called in Europe
shrapnel. In Europe the term case shot is applied to
what in the United States is called canister.
--Wilhelm.
Wiktionary
n. (context military historical English) A collection of small projectiles enclosed in a case or canister.
WordNet
n. a metallic cylinder packed with shot and used as ammunition in a firearm [syn: canister, canister shot]
Usage examples of "case shot".
Arlaks bellowed, blasting them with case shot at less than sixty meters, and men slipped and fell on blood-slick stone as the brigade broke out into the open.
The two field guns in the center next to the commanders began firing as well, with their barrels level with the ground, firing case shot.
There was a cheer from the British skirmishers when a spherical case shot, Britain's secret weapon developed by Colonel Shrapnel, successfully detonated right over one of the columns, and the musket balls, packed in the spherical case, splattered down onto the French and shredded half the ranks, but there were not enough guns to check the attack, and the French took the punishment and kept coming.