beehive round

noun

Military.

an artillery shell that ejects thousands of naillike metal projectiles on exploding.

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There he looked sadly on the little place; A beehive round it was, without a trace Of occupant or owner; standing dim Among the gloomy trees it seemed to Him A final desolation, the last word Wherewith the lips of silence had been stirred.