| 单词 | rum jar |
| 释义 | > as lemmasrum jar rum jar n. now historical (a) a jar for holding rum; (b) slang (during the First World War) a type of German trench-mortar shell. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > missile > ammunition for firearms > [noun] > bullet or shell > shell > trench mortar shell plum pudding1900 sausage1915 oil cana1917 rum jar1916 toffee apple1917 1857 tr. A. Paul Willis Pilot xxv. 306 All the marks of the preceding night's adventures were there—the gridiron, the empty rum jar, the table overturned in the mélée. 1916 P. McGregor Let. 29 June in M. Moynihan Greater Love (1980) 21 A ‘Rum Jar,’ the largest Hun shell known on our front, can knock in yards of trenches. 1923 R. Kipling Irish Guards in Great War I. 252 Rum-jar by rum-jar, borne joyously through the dark streets. 1964 Listener 17 Sept. 431/1 The Germans also stepped up their mortar fire on our frontline trenches—the fearful ‘rum jars’. 1986 P. Berton Vimy ii. iii. 81 The men..never felt safe from the rain of Whizbangs, Minnies, Jack Johnsons, Rum Jars, and Coal Boxes. 2008 Northern Miner (Austral.) (Nexis) 1 July 3 He put together the sale of half-sized replicas of the gallon rum jars issued to soldiers at Gallipoli. < as lemmas |
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