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Grenade   /grənˈeɪd/   Listen
Grenade

noun
1.
A small explosive bomb thrown by hand or fired from a missile.



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"Grenade" Quotes from Famous Books



... Enemies made use of, in tossing their hand Grenadoes some distance off, one of our own Soldiers aiming to throw one over the Wall into the Counterscarp among the Enemy, it so happen'd that he unfortunately miss'd his Aim, and the Grenade fell down again on our side the Wall, very near the Person who fir'd it. He starting back to save himself, and some others who saw it fall, doing the like, those who knew nothing of the Matter fell into a sudden Confusion, and imagining some greater danger than there really was, every body ...
— Military Memoirs of Capt. George Carleton • Daniel Defoe



Words linked to "Grenade" :   rifle grenade, hand grenade, grenade thrower, smoke grenade, bomb



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