double-shot

English

double-shot (third-person singular simple present double-shots, present participle double-shotting, simple past and past participle double-shotted)

(transitive, military) To load (a cannon) with twice the shot, for increased damage at the expense of range.
The Indomitable raked the frigate’s stern with double-shotted guns.
- 1838, [Edgar Allan Poe], chapter XX, in The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket. […], New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC, pages 165–166:
  The boarding-nettings were up, the guns double-shotted with grape and canister, and the swivels loaded with canisters of musket-balls.

double-shot (not comparable)

Made by molding a second layer of plastic around a plastic or metal base.
This keyboard has double-shot keycaps, to prevent the symbols from wearing off.

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