During this short action the Hebe's foremast had been disabled by one of the 68-pound shot, her wheel had been knocked away, and her second captain and four men killed.
A carronade throwing a thirty-two-pound shot weighs considerably less than a long-gun only throwing a twenty-four-pound shot.
The bodies of the five poor fellows who had fallen in the attack of the previous night were placed in the lee gangway, sewn up in their hammocks, each with an eighteen-pound shot at his feet, and the ensign spread over them as a pall.
The following note, accompanied by a six-pound shot, was sent by order of Brig.
They hammer our nine-pound shot into an egg shape.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pound shot" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
