Crossword clues for shrapnel
shrapnel
- Hand grenade hazard
- Explosion fragments
- Artillery fragments
- Shell pieces
- Pieces scattered by the bursting of a shell
- Henry ___, British Army officer who invented the exploding shell
- Fragments on a battlefield
- Explosive shell fragments
- Explosive shell
- Explosive fragments named after the British inventor of an artillery shell containing them
- Bits from an exploded shell
- Battlefield fragments
- Ammo named after its English inventor
- Bits of shells
- Shell containing lead pellets that explodes in flight
- Dangerous debris
- Shell fallout
- Shell fragments
- Exploding shell fragments
- Shell ruined her plans
- Scattered pieces from a bursting shell
- Pieces scattered by a bursting shell
- Bits of an exploded shell
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Case shot \Case" shot`\ (Mil.) A collection of small projectiles, inclosed in a case or canister.
Note: In the United States a case shot is a thin spherical or
oblong cast-iron shell containing musket balls and a
bursting charge, with a time fuse; -- called in Europe
shrapnel. In Europe the term case shot is applied to
what in the United States is called canister.
--Wilhelm.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1806, from Gen. Henry Shrapnel (1761-1842), who invented a type of exploding, fragmenting shell when he was a lieutenant in the Royal Artillery during the Peninsular War. The invention consisted of a hollow cannon ball, filled with shot, which burst in mid-air; his name for it was spherical case ammunition. Sense of "shell fragments" is first recorded 1940. The surname is attested from 13c., and is believed to be a metathesized form of Charbonnel, a diminutive form of Old French charbon "charcoal," in reference to complexion, hair color, or some other quality.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context historical English) An anti-personnel artillery shell used in WWI which carries a large number of individual bullets close to the target and then ejects them to allow them to continue along the shell's trajectory and strike the target individually. 2 A collective term for shot, fragments, or debris thrown out by an exploding shell or landmine. 3 (context slang English) loose change. 4 debris caused by action of persons or animals.
WordNet
n. shell containing lead pellets that explodes in flight
Wikipedia
Shrapnel may refer to:
Shrapnel is the name of several fictional characters in the various Transformers universes. The character has also been called by the names Insecticon and Sharpshot due to trademark issues.
- redirect Shrapnel
Shrapnel is a supervillain in the DC Comics universe. He is primarily an enemy of the Outsiders and the Doom Patrol.
Shrapnel is a military science fiction limited comic book series published by Radical Comics in collaboration with Zombie Studios. The story was created and plotted by Mark Long and Nick Sagan, the final script was written by M. Zachary Sherman, and the art is provided by Bagus Hutomo based on designs by Kai.
Shrapnel, in comics, may refer to:
- Shrapnel (DC Comics), a DC Comics supervillain
- Shrapnel (Radical Comics), a series of sci-fi limited series from Radical Comics
- Shrapnel (Transformers), a character in Transformers who has appeared in the comic book adaptations
Shrapnel was a punk rock band formed in 1981 in Briton Ferry, South Wales, United Kingdom. Among other accomplishments, the band toured Ireland with the British band Subhumans in 1984. In 1988 Shrapnel split an LP with Scottish band Toxik Ephex for the new Welsh label Words of Warning, but the band folded following their subsequent 1988 UK tour with San Francisco band Christ on Parade.
The band's lineup included Andrew Kingdom (voice), Mark Rees (bass), Paul Summers (guitar), and Geoff James (drums).
Shrapnel was an American punk band formed in Red Bank, New Jersey in the late-1970s. The group was a concept band whose members wore military uniforms onstage. The band's aesthetic included glorification of war, carrying prop M16 rifles onstage, and stances criticizing earlier anti-Vietnam War sentiment: " Hey, you asshole creep, I bet you were against the war." The band was criticized, including labeled as "proto-fascist", for its provocative antics, with songs such as Hey Little Gook.
Members of the group would go on to form the band Monster Magnet.
Usage examples of "shrapnel".
The British batteries turned their attention away from them, and began to search the ridge with shrapnel and prepare the way for the advancing infantry.
Each bomblet released thousands of tiny bits of metal, each traveling faster than a bullet and along with these bits of shrapnel traveled burning white phosphorus.
Here and there were a few scuffs where shrapnel had bounced from the hardened ceramite of the carapace.
Spitmobile guns right past us, Chugger yanks the wheel to the left, and the back end swings around to collide climactically against the front end of the Bronco, sending a precious shrapnel of bouncing snare drums, splintering guitars, squirming black cables, and jury-rigged electronics.
And on the Iceshelf I had been hurt three times -- twice cut from shrapnel after white mines had killed buddies, once lanced from a long-range sniper -- that final wound serious enough to bring in a priest who all but demanded that I accept the cruciform before it was too late.
Sarah pulls down the sheets covering Daud, unbuttons his pajama tunic, exposing the slack white chest mottled with pink shrapnel scars.
But the smell which hung over the battery, which stood between barracks and gun positions, between the computer and the shrapnel trenches, and scarcely moved its supporting leg, the smell which, as Harry and everyone else knew, was projected neither by rats nor by crows, which arose from no drain and hence from no errancy, this smell was wafted, regardless of whether the wind was working from Putzig or Dirschau, from the harbor-mouth bar or from the open sea, by a whitish mound blocked off by barbed wire and situated to the south of the battery.
It was loud and I could hear the shrapnel hitting the grass and trees around me.
In vain the great gun exploded its huge shell with its fifty pounds of lyddite over the ridges, in vain the smaller pieces searched every cleft and hollow with their shrapnel.
To right to left, behind and before, the British shells burst, lyddite and shrapnel, crashing and riving.
Up there where the shrapnel was spurting and the great lyddite shells crashing they could dimly see a line of bearded faces and the black dots of the slouch hats.
Two other divisions and the cavalry stood round, alert and eager, like terriers round a rat-hole, while all day the pitiless guns crashed their common shell, their shrapnel, and their lyddite into the river-bed.
It appeared as if a shell with a contact fuse had gouged a shallow hole in the stone and the shrapnel had ripped out gouges which radiated in all directions from the center crater.
The explosion tore the winning probe to bits, sending more metal scything in every direction, and the detonation and flying shrapnel ripped apart the wing of the accompanying probe, hurling it to the ground.
A piece of shrapnel had cut through the RPG screen covering the upper portion of the hootch and had almost taken off his head.