beehive round

noun

, Military.

1. an artillery shell that ejects thousands of naillike metal projectiles on exploding.

Example Sentences

There he looked sadly on the little place; A beehive round it was, without a trace Of occupant or owner; standing dim Among the gloomy trees it seemed to Him A final desolation, the last word Wherewith the lips of silence had been stirred.

From Project Gutenberg