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The name of Sir William Mills (1856–1932) used attrib., as Mills bomb, Mills grenade, etc., to designate a type of hand grenade, serrated on the outside to form shrapnel on explosion, invented by him.
1916War Illustr. 30 Sept. 162/1 (caption) ‘Lobbing’ a Mills grenade. 1917G. M. Ainslie Hand Grenades 8 Grenade hand no. 5. Mark 1. Mills hand grenade. 1917A. G. Empey From Fire Step xii. 74 The standard bomb used in the British Army is the ‘Mills’. It is about the shape and size of a large lemon. 1923Kipling Irish Guards in Gt. War I. 75 The Mills bomb..was not born till the autumn of 1915. 1935C. Day Lewis Time to Dance 38 But the aeronauts, knowing iron the coinage here, had brought Mills bombs and revolvers. 1942J. T. Gorman Mod. Weapons War vii. 121 The segmented jacket of a Mills bomb or hand-grenade is not unlike that of a pomegranate's ridged outer rind. 1973J. Wainwright Pride of Pigs 17 Any damn fool can work a Mills hand grenade..slip your finger through the split-ring, jerk out the pin and throw. Ibid., He smuggled a Mills bomb home in..his kitbag as a memento of El Alamein. 1974Daily Tel. 6 May 1/6 A fully-primed Mills bomb which had been used as a mantelpiece ornament for 56 years was handed to police at Nottingham yesterday. |