单词 | shrapnel bullet |
释义 | > as lemmasshrapnel bullet C1. General attributive, as (in sense 1) shrapnel barrage, shrapnel bullet, etc., (in sense 2a) shrapnel injury, shrapnel wound, etc. Cf. sense 1a. ΚΠ 1852 tr. A. Görgei My Life & Acts in Hungary I. xlvi. 400 The brisk shrapnell-fire of these hostile divisions of artillery..rendered this attack difficult. 1854 F. A. Griffiths Artillerist's Man. (ed. 6) 82 The Shrapnell fuze. 1914 Machinery (Engin. ed.) 20 468 (title) Making shrapnel cases on the Cleveland automatic. 1918 G. Frankau Judgement of Valhalla 7 And floundered, torn and bleeding, Over trenches, through the wire, With the shrapnel-barrage leading To the prey of our desire. 1923 R. Kipling Irish Guards in Great War I. 222 A shrapnel-barrage fell also on the supports. 1930 E. Raymond Jesting Army i. vi. 93 The Gully Ravine..was being sprinkled with shrapnel bullets. 1940 Weekly Irish Times 15 June 14/2 [He] is in hospital in England suffering from shrapnel wounds. 1961 Noble Savage 4 236 The public buildings were filthy, pitted with shrapnel-scars. 1975 J. Cleary Safe House iv. 177 The walls were spattered with bullet and shrapnel marks. 2006 New Yorker 12 June 124/3 The patients include..shrapnel injuries, and dislocations. 2011 Guardian 26 July (G2 section) 13/2 Several of my wardmates were French soldiers whose bodies were covered in shrapnel wounds. < as lemmas |
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