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Well, that was even less consistent posting than I intended. This week is also looking possibly intermittent due to external obligations. But in the mean time:
mitraille (MEE-trai) - small missiles such as grape, canister, fragments of iron, and the like loaded into a canon.
In modern French, the word specifically means grapeshot, but when it was adopted into English, it was the slightly more general scrap iron loaded in a gun or canon. Before that, it meant small coins, as a diminutive of mite, a small coin.
---L.
mitraille (MEE-trai) - small missiles such as grape, canister, fragments of iron, and the like loaded into a canon.
In modern French, the word specifically means grapeshot, but when it was adopted into English, it was the slightly more general scrap iron loaded in a gun or canon. Before that, it meant small coins, as a diminutive of mite, a small coin.
---L.
