What is "solid shot"

Usage examples of "solid shot".

And then it came, the first wave of shells ripping through the lines, solid shot rolling through the men like a hard wind, some streaking overhead, some plowing down into the ground beneath their feet.

The artillerymen had turned the gun and loaded it with a solid shot.

He'd finally gotten a magazine of solid shot lined up, and he was waiting for his turn at the big fish.

I was fascinated to find out that primitive sea battles were actually fought with solid shot of just this weight.

He seemed amused as the solid shot struck the armor on the casemate and bounced away flattened, while shells burst into a thousand fragments.

A pair of heavy solid shot struck just aft of the starboard gun with a tremendous blow.

Shabazz squinted, trying to get a visual on what had them, in order to get off a solid shot.

With a thunderous roar across the narrow gap of water, Arkansas launched a wall of solid shot into Carondelet's casemate.

The cannon will fire solid shot until theyve battered down a gate, or a suitable breach in a wall.

Fortress models throwing forty and sixty-kilo solid shot, which was a threat to the gunboats.

The cannon will fire solid shot until they've battered down a gate, or a suitable breach in a wall.

For all practical purposes, solid shot had struck with the impact and effect of explosive shells.

The fabric of the fortifications quivered underneath him as the heavy solid shot rammed into the granite facing of the concrete-and-rubble wall.

The mortars would throw a solid shot in a high arc, easily seen, and the gunners would watch it strike down hard, and if it did not bounce on solid ground, the clean miss, it had found the trench, a sudden crushing death to anyone who might be crouching low, believing himself safe.