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langrage Naut. and Mil.|ˈlæŋgrɪdʒ|
Also langridge.
[Of unknown origin.]
Case-shot loaded with pieces of iron of irregular shape, formerly used in naval warfare to damage the rigging and sails of the enemy.
1769Falconer Dict. Marine (1780), Langrel, or langrage, a particular kind of shot, formed of bolts, nails, bars, or other pieces of iron tied together, and forming a sort of cylinder, which corresponds with the bore of the cannon. 1796Nelson in Nicolas Disp. (1845) II. 146 It is well known that English ships of war are furnished with no such ammunition as langrage. 1839W. O. Manning Law Nations iv. vi. (1875) 203 Except the use of langridge (mitraille). 1862Beveridge Hist. India I. iii. xi. 637 A twenty-four pounder, double loaded with langrage.
attrib.1781Justamond Priv. Life Lewis XV, III. 385 The gunners..could not stand the langrage-shot. 1813Southey Nelson v. (Rtldg.) 128 Nelson received a severe wound on the head from a piece of langridge shot. |
