| 单词 | mills bomb |
| 释义 | > as lemmasMills bomb A type of oval hand grenade serrated on the outside to form shrapnel on explosion. Chiefly attributive, esp. in Mills bomb. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > missile > [noun] > grenade trombe1562 grenade1591 grenado1611 granata1637 hand grenade1637 bag-granado1638 shell1647 glass-grenade1664 globe1672 flask1769 petrol bomb1903 rifle grenade1909 hairbrush1916 Mills1916 pineapple bomb1916 stick grenade1917 fragmentation bomb1918 pineapple1918 potato-masher grenade1925 spitball1925 Molotov cocktail1940 sticky bomb1940 stick-bomb1941 red devila1944 stun grenade1977 flash-bang1982 1916 War Illustr. 30 Sept. 162/1 (caption) ‘Lobbing’ a Mills grenade. 1917 G. M. Ainslie Hand Grenades 8 Grenade hand no. 5. Mark 1. Mills hand grenade. 1917 A. G. Empey From Fire Step xii. 74 The standard bomb used in the British Army is the ‘Mills’. It is about the shape and size of a large lemon. 1923 R. Kipling Irish Guards in Great War I. 75 The Mills bomb..was not born till the autumn of 1915. 1937 W. Lewis Revenge for Love i. vi. 68 Struck down in the clash and clangour of the class-war by canned goods as well and truly as if a Mills bomb had been levelled at his head. 1942 J. T. Gorman Mod. Weapons War vii. 121 The segmented jacket of a Mills bomb or hand-grenade is not unlike that of a pomegranate's ridged outer rind. 1973 J. Wainwright Pride of Pigs 17 Any damn fool can work a Mills hand grenade..slip your finger through the split-ring, jerk out the pin and throw. 1999 Daily Tel. 18 Jan. 21/4 I spent my childhood there [i.e. in Aden], and have the scars to prove it: a terrorist threw a Mills bomb into the cinema where I was watching The Moon Spinners. < as lemmas |
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