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Answer for the clue "Girl on sailing boat makes a delivery ", 12 letters:
daisy cutter

Word definitions for daisy cutter in dictionaries

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
A daisy cutter is a type of fuse designed to detonate an aerial bomb at or above ground level. The fuse itself is a long probe affixed to the weapon's nose, which detonates the bomb if it touches the ground or any solid object.

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
alt. 1 (context baseball slang dated 1800s English) A well-struck ground ball. 2 (context cricket English) A ball that bounces more than once before reaching the batsman. 3 (context slang English) The BLU-82 bomb, for its ability to flatten a forest into ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. a bomb with only 10 to 20 per cent explosive and the remainder consisting of casings designed to break into many small high-velocity fragments; most effective against troops and vehicles [syn: fragmentation bomb , antipersonnel bomb , anti-personnel ...

Usage examples of daisy cutter.

If pressure was gasoline, Mason had just dropped a five-thousand-pound daisy cutter.

Multimillionaire Osama bin Laden lived in a cave (and is now D-E-D dead under a Daisy Cutter in Tora Bora).