Mitraille

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    shot or bits of iron used sometimes in loading cannon historical, uncountable

Etymology

From Old French mitaille (“small coins; hence scrap iron, old iron; then grapeshot”); originally diminutive of mite (“small coin”). See also mitrailleur.

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