langrage

American  

[lang-grij] / ˈlæŋ grɪdʒ /

Or langridge

noun

1. a kind of shot consisting of bolts, nails, etc., fastened together or enclosed in a case, formerly used for damaging sails and rigging in sea battles.

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langrage British  

/ ˈlæŋɡrɪdʒ, ˈlæŋɡrəl /

noun

1. shot consisting of scrap iron packed into a case, formerly used in naval warfare

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Etymology

Origin of langrage

First recorded in 1760–70; origin uncertain

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Example Sentences

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langrage

A langrage shot, consisting of bits of iron, bullets, nails, and other matters, got together in haste for a sudden emergency.

From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Sir Edward Belcher

Round shot would have danced over the water and left them comparatively safe; but in the deadly hail of langrage such escape was impossible.

From The Bay State Monthly, Volume 3, No. 6 by Various

The bow-gun in the boat was in return pointed up and loaded to the muzzle with musket balls and all sorts of langrage.

From True Blue by William Henry Giles Kingston

A discharge of langrage from one of the two long brass guns, mounted on her prow, flew amongst the boats, without taking effect.

From The King's Own by Frederick Marryat

That junk astern of us has just treated us to a broadside of langrage, and Chips’s opinion of the pair of them is that they are a couple of piratical craft.

From Overdue The Story of a Missing Ship by W. Herbert Holloway

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