Grapeshot: alternatives and connections

Furnished with, or composed of, rings; ringed; surrounded by rings of color.

To gather balls which cling to the feet, as of damp snow or clay; to gather into balls; as, the horse balls; the snow balls.

A bearing in coats of arms, representing one or more balls, which are denominated bezants, plates, etc., according to color.

The act of voting by balls or written or printed ballots or tickets; the system of voting secretly by balls or by tickets.

A game played with ivory balls o a cloth-covered, rectangular table, bounded by elastic cushions. The player seeks to impel his ball w…

Of or pertaining to the bottom; fundamental; lowest; under; as, bottom rock; the bottom board of a wagon box; bottom prices.

Having at the bottom, or as a bottom; resting upon a bottom; grounded; -- mostly, in composition; as, sharp-bottomed; well-bottomed.

A kind of case shot for cannon, in which a number of lead or iron balls in layers are inclosed in a case fitting the gun; -- called al…

A shot in which the ball struck with the cue comes in contact with two or more balls on the table; a hitting of two or more balls with…

That which is cast in a mold; esp. the mass of metal so cast; as, a casting in iron; bronze casting.

A number of similar things collected together or lying contiguous; a group; as, a cluster of islands.

To fall together suddenly, as the sides of a hollow vessel; to close by falling or shrinking together; to have the sides or parts of (…

Any flattish flower cluster, whatever be the order of blooming, or a similar shaped cluster of fruit.

A kind of patten mounted on short pieces of iron instead of rings; also, a fixture with iron points worn on a shoe to prevent one from…

The number nine or a group of nine.

A polygon or plane figure with nine sides and nine angles; a nonagon.

A charcoal hearth or furnace for the conversion of cast iron into wrought iron, or into iron suitable for puddling.

The most common and most useful metallic element, being of almost universal occurrence, usually in the form of an oxide (as hematite,…