bowletts

Updated: May 13, 2025

Each gun had some half-dozen chambers, so that the firing from them may have been rapid, perhaps three rounds a minute. All ships of war carried "pycks for hewing stone-shott," though after 1490, "the iron shott callyd bowletts," and their leaden brothers, came into general use.

John Masefield - On the Spanish Main: Or, Some English forays on the Isthmus of Darien.