double-shot

double-shot (third-person singular simple present double-shots, present participle double-shotting, simple past and past participle double-shotted)

1. (military) To load cannons with twice the shot, for increased damage at the expense of range.
   • 1838, Edgar Allan Poe, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket, New York: Harper & Brothers, Chapter XX,

     The boarding-nettings were up, the guns double-shotted with grape and canister, and the swivels loaded with canisters of musket-balls.

   The Indomitable raked the frigate's stern with double-shotted guns.

double-shot (not comparable)

1. Made by molding a second layer of plastic around a plastic or metal base.

   This keyboard has double-shot keycaps, to prevent the symbols from wearing off.

• (mechanical keyboards) dye-sub