- grapeshot (n.)
[grapeshot 词源字典]
- also grape-shot, 1747, from grape + shot (n.). So called for its appearance. Originally simply grape (1680s), a collective singular. The whiff of grapeshot was popularized in English from 1837, from Carlyle's history of the French Revolution (in which it was a chapter title).[grapeshot etymology, grapeshot origin, 英语词源]