| 单词 | rampart grenade |
| 释义 | > as lemmasrampart grenade a. A small explosive shell, usually of metal, thrown into the trenches or among clusters of the enemy. It is now thrown only by hand: see hand grenade n. rampart grenade, one to be rolled down the rampart to harass the besieging enemy. 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 α. β. 1709 R. Steele Tatler No. 80. ⁋9 The Charge began with the Fire of Bombs and Grenades.1767 T. Simes Mil. Medley (1768) Grenade is an iron orbicular case..filled with powder, to be thrown by the grenadiers amongst the enemy in an attack.1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. IV. xvii. 81 A brave French refugee with a grenade in his hand was the first to climb the breach.1863 A. W. Kinglake Invasion of Crimea I. xiv. 231 That..grenades should be secretly placed in the houses of the men.figurative.a1657 R. Lovelace Poems (1864) 193 An icy breast in it betray'd Breaks a destructive wild granade.1886 Pall Mall Gaz. 30 Sept. 1/1 The bludgeon of downright calumny, and the mud grenade of libellous abuse are more in vogue nowadays than the rapier of wit or the barbed dart of polished sarcasm.1591 W. Garrard & R. Hitchcock Arte of Warre 317 For preparations against the assault you must not be destitute of all sorts of arteficial fire, as Trompes, Granades, Bullets. c1645 I. Tullie Narr. Siege of Carlisle (1840) 38 Diverse were pitifully burned by the granade. 1694 R. Franck Northern Mem. 17 Sin, like a Granade, tears up all before it. < as lemmas |
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