Grape-shot

Grape-shot, called also ticr-shot, consists of small iron balls piled round an iron pin, holding together a series of parallel iron plates of the same diameter as the gun from which they are to be fired, between which are the shot, kept in their places by holes in the plates. On being discharged they spread over a wide area. In another pattern called quilted grape the shot are held together on the central pin by canvas instead of iron plates. Both have now almost ceased to be used, their place being taken by casc-shot, sometimes called canister.