Pairs of cannonballs or half balls joined by a chain, fired from cannons in sea battles in order to damage masts and rigging.
〈史〉（用于海战的）链弹
Example sentencesExamples
If you read back in the history, you find that they fired all kinds of things out of the cannons: not only round shot, but also chain shot, bar shot, grape shot.
Beset by whirring chain shot, the Swedes did not wait for the imperial army to complete its deployment, and mounted a hasty attack on the enemy's left, catching them in disarray and putting them to flight almost at once.
Using the manual option allows you to attempt to disable the enemy boat's sails with chain shot, destroy the boat's hull with cannonballs, or kill off the crew with grapeshot.
Definition of chain shot in US English:
chain shot
noun
historical
Pairs of cannonballs or half balls joined by a chain, fired from cannons in sea battles in order to damage masts and rigging.
〈史〉（用于海战的）链弹
Example sentencesExamples
Beset by whirring chain shot, the Swedes did not wait for the imperial army to complete its deployment, and mounted a hasty attack on the enemy's left, catching them in disarray and putting them to flight almost at once.
Using the manual option allows you to attempt to disable the enemy boat's sails with chain shot, destroy the boat's hull with cannonballs, or kill off the crew with grapeshot.
If you read back in the history, you find that they fired all kinds of things out of the cannons: not only round shot, but also chain shot, bar shot, grape shot.