double-shot, v. trans.
To load (a cannon) with a double quantity of shot. Also fig.
| 1824 Scott Redgauntlet ch. iii, A pair of buffers..they are double-shotted. 1830 Marryat King's Own xvi, The enemy..poured in a double-shotted..broadside. 1853 Trench Proverbs iii. 49 [Proverbs] so rich in humour, so double-shotted with homely sense. 1859 F. A. Griffiths Artil. Man. (1862) 60 Double shot the gun. |