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Definition of Mills bomb in English: Mills bombnounmɪlz historical An oval hand grenade. Example sentencesExamples - The Mills bomb was so successful that its basic design was to remain in use by the British Army until the 1960's.
- The Mills bomb is time fused, triggered by pulling out the safety pin and releasing the lever.
- Brown was with an advance party which took over some newly captured trenches near Accroche Wood and, on being told that a sniper's post was causing trouble, he located the enemy strong point, picked up two Mills bombs and ran towards it under fire.
- They threw in their Mills bombs and then rushed the position, killing some of the Germans and capturing the gun.
- The standard grenade was the old Mills bomb for many years, until the introduction of the L2, basically a copy of the US M26, in the 1970s.
- The majority of overall design changes to the Mills Bomb occurred during the first two years of Mills bomb development and were mostly to lower cost of production.
- To use the Mills bomb the thrower first removed the safety pin while holding down the strike lever beneath it.
- Up a small track a little further south I came across a Mills bomb embedded in the surface of the track.
- Two of the design features of the Mills bomb are still to be found in many modern hand grenades: the split pin and the handle which secures the spring-loaded firing pin.
- He said that during previous amnesties a wide range of different weapons had been handed in, such as old grenades and Mills bombs.
Origin Early 20th century: named after Sir William Mills (1856–1932), the English engineer who invented it. |