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▪ I. grenade, n.1|grɪˈneɪd|
Forms: α. 6–7 granade; β. 7– grenade.
[a. F. grenade fem., a. Sp. granada (also Pg.) pomegranate (see garnet); hence transf. = sense 2 below. See also grenado.]
†1. A pomegranate. Obs. (Cf. granate n.2)
αc1532G. Du Wes Introd. Fr. in Palsgr. 912 Granades, grenades. 1664Evelyn Kal. Hort. (1729) 211 Water young planted Shrubs..as Orange-Trees, Myrtles, Granades.
β1654Whitelocke Jrnl. Swed. Emb. (1772) I. 375 He..sent..a present of citrones, grenades, and curious spanish comfitures.
2. a. A small explosive shell, usually of metal, thrown into the trenches or among clusters of the enemy. It is now thrown only by hand: see hand-grenade. rampart grenade, one to be rolled down the rampart to harass the besieging enemy.
α1591Garrard's Art Warre 317 For preparations against the assault you must not be destitute of all sorts of arteficial fire, as Trompes, Granades, Bullets. c1645Tullie Siege Carlisle (1840) 38 Diverse were pitifully burned by the granade. 1658R. Franck North. Mem. (1694) 16 Sin, like a Granade, tears up all before it.
β1709Steele Tatler No. 80 ⁋9 The Charge began with the Fire of Bombs and Grenades. 1767T. Simes Mil. Medley (1768), Grenade is an iron orbicular case..filled with powder, to be thrown by the grenadiers amongst the enemy in an attack. 1855Macaulay Hist. Eng. xvii. IV. 81 A brave French refugee with a grenade in his hand was the first to climb the breach. 1863Kinglake Crimea (1876) I. xiv. 242 That..grenades should be secretly placed in the houses of the men.
fig.a1657Lovelace Poems (1864) 193 An icy breast in it betray'd Breaks a destructive wild granade. 1886Pall Mall G. 30 Sept. 1/1 The bludgeon of downright calumny, and the mud grenade of libellous abuse are more in vogue nowadays than the rapier of wit or the barbed dart of polished sarcasm.
b. A glass receptacle to be thrown in order to burst and disperse its contents; e.g. drain grenade, one filled with a strong-smelling fluid, to be used in detecting a leakage in a drain; fire-grenade, a fire-extinguisher, = hand-grenade 2.
1891E.A. Parkes' Pract. Hygiene 110 Glass grenades charged with pungent chemicals. 1893Taylor Sanit. Inspector's Handbk. 103 A similar test is the ‘Banner drain grenade’, an appliance made of thin glass charged with pungent and volatile chemicals. 1895Army & Navy Coöp. Soc. Price List Sept. 286 New Hand Fire Grenade.
3. attrib., as grenade-launcher, grenade pouch, grenade-thrower.
1959C. Ogburn Marauders (1960) iv. 125 The Japanese..redoubled the fire of their *grenade launchers. 1969I. Kemp Brit. G.I. in Vietnam iv. 83 There was a good deal of shouting from the garrison, several of whom started to fire grenade launchers into the night.
1836Hist. Rec. Life Guards 47 A *grenade pouch.
1920Glasgow Herald 14 Apr. 9 For one moment Commander-in-Chief and *grenade-thrower stood hand in hand looking long and confidently into each other's eyes.
▪ II. grenade, n.2 Cookery.|grɪˈneɪd|
[Alleged to be Fr.; perh. f. grain grain n.1, with the etymological sense of ‘something spiced’ (cf. OF. grané mentioned s.v. gravy); perh. a transferred use of grenade pomegranate. (Cf. grenadine1 and granada.)]
(See quot. 1706.)
1706Phillips (ed. Kersey), Grenade,..in Cookery, a Dish, of larded Veal-collops bak'd in a Stew-pan between two Fires, with six Pigeons and a Ragoo in the middle, and cover'd on the top and underneath with thin slices of Bacon. 1730–6in Bailey (folio). 1892Encycl. Cookery (ed. Garrett) I. 719 Grenades with Cherry Sauce.
▪ III. greˈnade, v.
[f. grenade n.1]
trans. To attack with grenades.
1849A. H. Clough Lett. & Rem. (1865) 144 The simple truth would appear to be, that we have been grenaded, not bombarded. 1947Dylan Thomas Let. 29 May (1966) 309 Our little spankers make so much noise I cannot work anywhere near them. God grenade them. 1959C. Ogburn Marauders (1960) iv. 120 The sound of anything stirring was to be instantly grenaded. |