| 单词 | green cross |
| 释义 | > as lemmasgreen cross green cross adj. [after German Grünkreuz (c1915)] now historical designating an artillery shell, marked with a green cross, which releases poisonous gas, originally used at Ypres during the First World War (1914–18); (also) designating the gas (a mix typically including phosgene) released by such a shell. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > missile > ammunition for firearms > [adjective] > poisonous gas shell green cross1916 1916 Times 6 Oct. 8/1 One German light field howitzer battery..fired over 3,500 rounds of gas shells (known as ‘green cross’ shells) in 24 hours. 1928 Daily Express 22 May 1/2 An immense steel flask of phosgene, the notorious Green Cross poison gas employed by Germany with such deadly effect during the war. 1931 J. Brophy & E. Partridge Songs & Slang Brit. Soldier: 1914–1918 (ed. 3) 314 Green cross shell, an enemy gas-shell of an emetic and lachrymatory nature. 2000 R.-D. Müller in R. Chickering & S. Förster Great War, Total War ii. v. 104 A large-scale deployment at Verdun on June 22, 1916, so drenched the French troops in green cross gas that their protective masks proved ineffective. < as lemmas |
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