iron slug

They acquired a four-pound cannon that could fire iron slugs.

She cut loose with a chugging volley of magnetically accelerated iron slugs.

Induction coils surged with currents, propelling iron slugs out through a barrel.

She slid a tiny iron slug across the counter and took a cup of pomegranate juice, cool and tart on her tongue.

When they stopped, the wagon — packed with dynamite and iron slugs — exploded in a fireball of shrapnel.

Electromechanical solenoids consist of an electromagnetically inductive coil, wound around a movable steel or iron slug (termed the armature).

Using iron slugs accelerated to 99% of the speed of light, it devastated a portion of the planet, killing humans and Kzinti alike and delaying the launch of yet another Kzin fleet against Earth.

For the more traditional normally open relay operation, the side contact is arranged somewhat higher up (or the volume of mercury is reduced) so that contact is not made when the iron slug is freely floating on the pool of mercury.

At the end of their third march they were disagreeably surprised by the arrival in their camp of a hammered iron slug which, fired from a steady rest at seven hundred yards, flicked out the brains of a private seated by the fire.