What is "throwers"

Usage examples of "throwers".

Then we dropped down over them, flung a couple of mines into their dugout and let our submachine guns and flame throwers play along the narrow trench.

After that we drove full pelt down a couple of side streets, encountered a company of infantry and disposed of them, using first our flame throwers then machine guns, while the steel tracks of our tanks attended to the few survivors.

The idea was that, once the tanks had passed, we were to engage the infantry following them with our machine guns, flame throwers and possibly close-combat weapons, bayonet and spade.

On the twelve thousand square miles of that plain grew a forest of laser throwers, the true Hercules of the expedition.

So the girders ejected, from small throwers, a dust that burned in the sun, and the solaser carried out its move behind this screen, folding up into the shape of a closed fan.