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From: josh@topaz.ARPA (J Storrs Hall)
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Subject: Re: GRAPEshot?
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Date: Fri, 22-Mar-85 21:01:11 EST
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Posted: Fri Mar 22 21:01:11 1985
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>In the old days, there was a kind of loading for cannon called
>"grapeshot" ...
> Perhaps grapefruit, being about the same size and
>possibly visual texture, look to some eyes like "grape"...

Grapeshot was dropped (as from a shot tower) like musket balls,
rather than sandcast (as cannon balls) so the individual balls
did not have the mottled texture of a grapefruit.