Home › Words › M › mitraillemitraillemitraille means shot or bits of iron used sometimes in loading cannon.EtymologyFrom Old French mitaille (“small coins; hence scrap iron, old iron; then grapeshot”); originally diminutive of mite (“small coin”). See also mitrailleur.nounshot or bits of iron used sometimes in loading cannonDefinitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).