cage-works

Updated: May 27, 2025

In Elizabethan ships the musketeers sometimes fired short, heavy, long-headed, pointed iron arrows from their muskets, a missile which flew very straight, and penetrated good steel armour. They had also an infinity of subtle fireworks, granadoes and the like, with which to set their opponents on fire. These they fired from the bombard pieces, or threw from the tops, or cage-works.

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