| 单词 | fire shell |
| 释义 | > as lemmasfire shell ΘΚΠ society > communication > indication > signalling > visual signalling > luminous signals > [noun] > pyrotechnic signals blue light1761 fire shell1765 Indian light1787 Bengal light1791 Indian fire1831 flare-up light1858 flare1883 Very1907 fairy light1916 Aldis lamp1917 Aldis1918 Bengal fire1941 flame float1942 Bengal flash1946 1765 J. Elphinston Princ. Eng. Lang. Digested I. 203/1 Bomb, fire-shell. 1816 M. G. Lewis Jrnl. 1815–16 5 Jan. in Jrnl. W. India Proprietor (1834) 70 A fire-shell is blown, and all the negroes..hasten to give their assistance. 1833 Rep. Select Comm. Extinction Slavery Brit. Dominions 31 in Parl. Papers (H.C. 721) XX. 1 I have never known a shell blown at five o'clock in the morning except a fire-shell, it would turn out all the population of the district. 1895 G. Griffith Outlaws of Air xxiii. 205 Port bow gun, load with fire-shell and set those two railway stations on fire. 1914 Washington Post 26 Dec. 9 His [sc. Mr Hammond's] new fire shell..is somewhat vaguely described as a great projectile which can be discharged from a siege gun and which..[can] spread uncontrollable flames wherever it strikes. < as lemmas |
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