| 单词 | claymore mine |
| 释义 | > as lemmasclaymore mine 2. A type of anti-personnel mine. In full claymore mine. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > explosive device > [noun] > land-mine > anti-personnel mine S-mine1944 Schu mine1945 claymore mine1962 1962 Ordnance Techn. Terminol. (U.S. Army Ordnance School) 72/2 Claymore, name given to a type of antipersonnel mine designed to produce a directionalized, fan shaped pattern of fragments. 1965 M. W. Browne New Face of War iv. 35 American arms designers have produced a mine called a ‘Claymore’, which has found wide use here [i.e. in Vietnam]. The Claymore, curved like a horseshoe, has an optical sighting device and hurls a blast of shrapnel directionally at the point toward which it has been pre-aimed. 1966 New Statesman 9 Sept. 341/1 One Claymore mine would finish this mob. 1966 New Scientist 17 Nov. 369/1 The claymore, whose effects can be devastating among close-packed ranks of men, was invented to deal with the wave formations of Chinese during the Korean war. < as lemmas |
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