| 单词 | potato-masher grenade |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspotato-masher grenade potato masher n. an implement for mashing cooked potatoes, consisting of a perforated flat plate or wire framework (formerly, a solid wooden cylinder) attached to a handle; (also) something that resembles this, spec. (a) Military slang (more fully potato-masher grenade) a type of hand grenade whose shape resembles that of a potato masher; (b) slang a drumstick. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > equipment for food preparation > [noun] > masher or crusher potato-beetle1821 potato masher1835 masher1849 potato-smasher1858 sugar-crusher1870 society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > percussion instrument > drum > [noun] > drumstick sticka1398 tabor-stick1486 drumstick1589 tapskin1605 drum stave1832 potato masher1835 baguette1876 wire brush1927 brush1955 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 1835 Daily Evening News (Jeffersonville, Indiana) 25 Sept. The couple were the recipients of many nice presents, among them the following:..Mrs. Sarah Holloway, potato masher. 1837 Friend (Philadelphia) 7 Feb. 141/2 After being well boiled they were mashed up well with the common potato masher. 1855 Chicago Times 16 Jan. 4/1 Butter moulds and stamps, ladles, rolling pins, potato mashers..at Hollister's Bazaar. 1890 Amer. Anthropologist 3 59 These macanes, or ‘potato-mashers’, as the soldiers used to call them, are well described by their nickname. 1895 Montgomery Ward Catal. Spring & Summer 439/3 Tinned wire Potato Masher, wood handle. 1918 Arms & Man 5 Oct. 32 While little danger exists at ten feet from one of the German ‘potato mashers’, almost certain death results if the victim is standing about twelve yards from a grenade such as is used by the allied forces. 1925 E. Fraser & J. Gibbons Soldier & Sailor Words 229 Potato-masher grenade, the name given a species of German hand-grenade, resembling in form a domestic potato-masher. 1943 Far Eastern Surv. 12 87/2 A favorite guerilla weapon is the hand grenade, potato-masher type, manufactured locally. 1945 L. Shelly Hepcats Jive Talk Dict. 31/1 Potato masher, drumstick. 1986 D. A. Dye Platoon (1987) ix. 219 His round eyes were locked on the three ChiCom potato-masher grenades. 1997 BBC Vegetarian Good Food Apr. 53/1 Crush some of the vegetables with a potato masher to thicken the soup. < as lemmas |
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