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‖ nebelwerfer|ˈneːbəlˈvɛrfər, -wɜːfə(r)| [G., f. nebel mist, fog, haze + werfer thrower, mortar, f. werfen to throw.] A German six-barrelled rocket mortar. Also attrib.
1943Hutchinson's Pict. Hist. War 4 Aug.–26 Oct. 191 These German gunners have certainly chosen a well-concealed position in which to hide their nebelwerfer (fog⁓thrower) battery. 1946C. Wilmot in R. W. Zandvoort et al. Wartime Eng. (1957) 163 The nebelwerfers—those many-barrelled mortars that put down the rocket⁓propelled bombs with the high wailing sobbing note. 1948A. M. Taylor Lang. World War II (rev. ed.) 136 Nebelwerfer, a German rocket thrower similar to the Russian Katyusha. 1961W. Vaughan-Thomas Anzio vi. 112 The Scots Guards captured a German officer who had driven into their lines while looking for sites for the unpleasant Nebelwerfers, or six-barrel mortars. |