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chain shot

The Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea | 2006 | 270 words | Copyright

chain shot, two cannon balls, connected together by either a chain or an iron bar, which when fired from a gun rotated at great speed through the air. It was designed to destroy the spars and rigging of an enemy ship and to clear the upper deck of men during an action.

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