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‖ minenwerfer Mil.|ˈmiːnənverfər, ˈmiːnənwɜːfə(r)|
[G., f. minen (pl.) mines + werfer, f. werfen to throw.]
A German trench mortar. Cf. mine-thrower, Minnie2.
Also called minnenwerfer from an expansion of Minnie2, the British soldiers' nickname for this gun.
1915A. D. Gillespie Lett. from Flanders (1916) 80 About Christmas time the Germans fetched up a thing called a Minen Werfer, a kind of trench mortar which throws 600 lb. of gun cotton. 1915[see mine-thrower]. 1916F. M. Ford Let. Aug. (1965) 68 The Germans seem to have nothing but minenwerfers. 1917A. G. Empey Over Top 300 Minnenwerfer, a high-power trench mortar shell of the Germans, which makes no noise coming through the air... Tommy nicknames them ‘Minnies’. 1923Kipling Irish Guards in Gt. War I. 101 He retaliated..along the line of seven-inch minenwerfers. |