Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A type of shot consisting of scrap iron loaded into a case and formerly used in naval warfare to damage sails and rigging.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
langrel .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A kind of shot formerly used at sea for tearing sails and rigging. It consisted of bolts, nails, and other pieces of iron fastened together or inclosed in a canister.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Scraps of metal used to fire at an enemy in
naval warfare .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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I welcome them all and encourage everyone to sing as one in any langrage that they choose.
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Red-hot cannon-balls, and shrapnel, langrage, chain-shot, and Greek-fire — these and the like were all fair warfare, and France might use them freely.
Springhaven Richard Doddridge 2004
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The ex-barkeeper was generous with these brown and glistening langrage-shot, and aimed volley after volley at our mouths.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 61, November, 1862 Various
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Its charge of langrage swept the French ship from her larboard bow to her starboard quarter, and struck down in an instant twenty-four men.
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Englishmen the devastating effect which that single broadside of langrage had wrought upon the unfortunate craft's crew.
The Cruise of the Nonsuch Buccaneer Harry Collingwood 1886
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Its tops, however, were crowded with marksmen, and armed with brass coehorns, firing langrage shot, and these scourged with a pitiless and most deadly fire the decks of the _Victory_, while the _Bucentaure_ and the gigantic _Santissima Trinidad_ also thundered on the British flagship.
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I do not want her sunk, if it can be helped, for some of those for whom we are seeking may be aboard her; therefore our endeavour must be to sweep her decks clear of soldiers; and in order to do that I will have every piece of ordnance, both great and small, loaded with bullets, bags of nails, and any langrage that you can most readily lay hands upon.
The Cruise of the Nonsuch Buccaneer Harry Collingwood 1886
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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.
Overdue The Story of a Missing Ship Harry Collingwood 1886
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And he pointed to a ghastly great hole in the side of the skipper's head, just above the left ear, where a piece of langrage of some description had crashed its way through the poor fellow's skull into his brain.
A Middy of the Slave Squadron A West African Story Harry Collingwood 1886
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This was doubtless unauthorized, for as the ship passed on, the Confederate, which proved to be the McRae, discharged a broadside of grape-shot and langrage, part of the latter being copper slugs, which were found on the Iroquois's decks in quantities after the action.
The Gulf and Inland Waters The Navy in the Civil War. Volume 3. 1877
qms commented on the word langrage
When enemy men-o’-war meet
Their greetings are iron and heat.
The harrowing language
Of carcass and langrage
Are all their palaver and treat.
February 22, 2018