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hand-grenade|ˈhændgrɪˌneɪd|
Also 7–9 -grenado, 7–8 -granado.
1. An explosive missile, smaller than a bombshell, thrown by hand.
a1661Fuller Worthies ii. (1662) 61 If they lye board and board they throw hand-Granadoes with stinck-pots into the ship which make so noisom a smell that, [etc.]. 1684J. Peter Siege Vienna 43 A Hundred fresh Men armed with Hand-Granadoes. 1719De Foe Crusoe ii. ix, The boatswain..called for a hand-grenado, and threw it among them. 1809–10Coleridge Friend (1865) 83 The result and relict of this author-like hand-grenado. 1859F. A. Griffiths Artil. Man. 91 A Land service Hand grenade weighs 1 lb. 13 oz., and may be thrown from 40 to 60 feet.
2. A glass bottle containing a chemical, to be broken in order to extinguish fire.
1895Army & Navy Coöp. Soc. Price List Sept. 286 Fire Extinguishers (Imperial Hand Grenade)..The Harden Star Hand Grenades.
Hence hand-greˈnading vbl. n., the throwing of hand-grenades.
1882Standard 25 Aug. 3/7 [They] remained on the camp side of the river, escalading, hand grenading, and double lock bridge building. 1884Milit. Engin. I. ii. 102 The squad will then be put through the hand grenading drill in slow time. Ibid. 105 The stores being arranged in the same order as for hand-grenading. |