The Collaborative International Dictionary
Langrage \Lan"grage\, Langrel \Lan"grel\, n. A kind of shot formerly used at sea for tearing sails and rigging. It consisted of bolts, nails, and other pieces of iron fastened together or inclosed in a canister.
Wiktionary
n. Scraps of metal used to fire at an enemy in naval warfare.
Usage examples of "langrage".
Sostish minelayers plied that corridor now, seeding it with langrage the size of skimcraft.
The murderous crossfire of cunningly concealed light cannon decimated the attack while still it was far from the now-firm lines, his arquebusiersemploying the new, multi-shot weapons developed in England during the calamitous attempts to subdue that land by the late and unlamented Pope Abdulpoured fourteen volleys of thumb-thick leaden balls into the attackers, and then, when they had retired behind the ranks of pikemen, ranks parted all along the battle line to reveal the grinning mouths of larger field guns, all loaded to almost the muzzle-bands with grape and langrage and carcasses filled with arquebus and caliver balls.