Grape Shot

Portuguese translation: metralha

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English term or phrase:	grape shot
Portuguese translation:	metralha
Entered by:	Juliana Lira

00:23 Feb 1, 2020

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English term or phrase: Grape Shot

O romance se passa durante a Guerra Civil Americana e a personagem está cuidando de soldados feridos em um hospital:

"A bandage was wrapped tightly around his bare upper chest, and with the knowledge Amara had picked up over the previous several hours, she assumed he had been injured by grape shot—the cluster of small iron balls discharged from a cannon"

A linguagem é formal, mas para um público jovem. Procurei imagens, mas não encontrei uma solução. Existe tradução para grape shot?

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Juliana Lira KudoZ activity Questions: 1 (none open) Answers: 0 Brazil
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metralha

Explanation:

https://www.megacurioso.com.br/historias-macabras/101016-sab...
metralha — um tipo de munição que consiste em inúmeras balas de ferro que são disparadas juntas.

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grape shot = metralha:
https://www.google.com/search?ei=2M40Xqm3O_Cc5OUPv6mvuAE&q="...

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Matheus Chaud
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Local time: 04:52

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metralha

Matheus Chaud

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estilhaços

expressisverbis

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metralha

Matheus Chaud
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Obrigada Matheus!

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estilhaços

Explanation:
Também encontrei como tradução.

grapeshot n
(type of ammunition)
(tipo de munição)
metralha sf
estilhaço sm
https://www.wordreference.com/enpt/grapeshot

No entanto, o Matheus parece ter acertado, na Wikipédia, em FR e ES aparece igualmente traduzido como "metralha".

Un racimo de metralla es un tipo de munición de artillería que no es macizo, sino una masa de pequeñas esferas metálicas o balas empacadas compactamente dentro de un saco de lona.1 Fue empleado tanto en tierra como en el mar. Al ser ensamblado, las balas parecen un racimo de uvas, de ahí su nombre. Al ser disparado, las balas se esparcen desde la boca del cañón, produciendo un efecto similar al de una escopeta gigante.2
https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racimo_de_metralla

expressisverbis
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Local time: 08:52
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Asker: Muito obrigada! Pensei em usar estilhaços, mas em outros romances de guerra que já traduzi estilhaços aparecia na maioria das vezes como shrapnel, mas as suas referências estão excelentes

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