Mitraille
noun
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Noun
- 1 shot or bits of iron used sometimes in loading cannon historical, uncountable
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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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