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GRAPE

This article appears in Volume V12, Page 364 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: GOA-GRA
GRAPE , the fruit of the vine (q.v.). The word is adopted from the O. Fr. grape, mod. grappe, bunch or cluster of
flowers
  or fruit, grappes de raisin, bunch of grapes. The
French
  word meant properly a
hook
 ; cf. M.H.G. krapfe, Eng. " grapnel," and "
cramp
 ." The development of meaning seems to be vine-
hook
 , cluster of grapes cut with a hook, and thence in
English
  a single grape of a cluster. The projectile called " grape " or " grape-shot," formerly used with smooth-bore ordnance, took its name from its general resemblance to a bunch of grapes. It consisted of a number of spherical bullets (heavier than those of the con-temporary
musket
 ) arranged in layers separated by thin
iron
  plates, a
bolt
  passing through the centre of the plates binding the whole together. On being discharged the projectile delivered the bullets in a shower somewhat after the fashion of
case
 -shot.


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