flechetten.

Brit.

/fleɪˈʃɛt/,

/flɛˈʃɛt/, U.S.

/fleɪˈʃɛt/,

/flɛˈʃɛt/

Forms: 1800s– flechette, 1900s– flechet, 1900s– fléchette, 1900s– flêchette.

Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French fléchette.

Etymology: < French fléchette small arrow, dart (1825 or earlier denoting a game played outside using a target), dart-shaped steel projectile dropped from an aircraft (1914 or earlier) < flèche arrow (see flèche n.) + -ette -ette suffix.

1. In singular and plural. An outdoor game in which each player throws small darts at a mounted circular board. Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > darts > [noun] > specific type of game

flechette1888

shanghai1930

1888 York Herald 24 Jan. A new game has taken Paris by storm, and is almost as great a feature in French life as lawn tennis is in England; this is flechettes.

1907 Country-side 27 July 167/3 The Game of Flechette can be confidently recommended to amuse the seniors at a garden party.

1995 Panama City (Florida) News Herald 2 July 7 e/1 The festivities will start at 5:30 p.m. with outdoor games: jeux de Petanque, Golf, Flechettes, etc.

2. Military.

a. A pointed steel projectile resembling a dart or arrow, dropped from an aircraft; (originally and chiefly) spec. a weapon of this type that was used against infantry and cavalry in the First World War (1914–18).

ΘΚΠ

society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > missile > [noun] > missile dropped from aircraft

flechette1914

1914 Times 24 Nov. 9/6 Then the French fliers started work with their ‘fléchettes’, horrid little arrows of steel which penetrate through a man's head or shoulder.

1919 Wide World Mag. Sept. 357/1 We amused ourselves..by diving at the working parties, chasing them into the water, and then dropping ‘flechettes’..to liven things up a bit.

2001 N.Y. Times Mag. 5 Aug. 55/1 One application being rods, or ‘flechettes’, designed to be tossed down to earth from space.

2007 K. Dockery Future Weapons 46 German soldiers had been completely penetrated by a flechette going all the way through their body.

b. A type of small, needle-like ammunition used in bombs, shells, or guns; (also) a shell containing ammunition of this type.

ΘΚΠ

society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > missile > ammunition for firearms > [noun] > bullet or shell > shell > other types of shell

carcass1684

light ball1729

anchor ball1779

shrapnel1810

hollow shot1862

segment-shell1862

blind-shell1864

ring-shot1868

star shell1876

ring-shell1879

pipsqueak1900

Black Maria1914

coal box1914

crump1914

Jack Johnson1914

Archie1915

Little Willie1915

whizz-bang1915

woolly bear1915

fizzbang1916

five-ninea1918

ashcan1918

cream puff1918

sea-bag1918

pudding1919

G.I. can1929

flechette1961

1961 Independent Star-News (Pasadena, Calif.) 9 Apr. 26/4 We are working on several applications of the principle in which flechettes are fired from various weapons.

1969 Australian 27 Nov. 9/1 It sprays needle-like projectiles with lethal effect of a wide area. The metal arrows, roughly two inches long, are known as flechets.

1988 Times 10 Aug. 7/1 Two tanks began firing fléchettes into the nearest valley.

1999 J. Elliot Unexpected Light (2000) viii. 298 We were shown tank shells and artillery shells; some filled with phosphorus, high explosive, or thousands of tiny steel flechettes.

2004 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 3 Oct. i. 8/1 Doctors in Gaza say they have pulled fléchettes from dead and wounded Palestinian fighters.

Compounds

General attributive and objective with participles (in sense 2b), as flechette-firing, flechette gun, flechette round, etc.

ΚΠ

1964 Monroe (Louisiana) Morning World 29 Mar. 3 b/1 Asked about treating ‘fleshette [sic] wounds’, an Army medical man was quoted by Army Times as saying, ‘It's a job for Graves Commission.’

1965 Pop. Mech. Feb. 264/2 The grenade firing capability of the SPIW is..completely interchangeable with the flechette portion of the weapon.

1969 Republican-Courier (Findlay, Ohio) 16 Jan. a9/3 It seems rather likely that flechette firing weapons..will become very potent additions to our military arsenal.

1975 L. Sanders Tomorrow File 148 Their pipe-barreled flechette guns were pointed at the house.

1994 Fighting Firearms Autumn 44/3 Steyr-Mannlicher's flechette-firing 14.5mm AMR rifle does not yet exist in deployable form.

2009 Toronto Star (Nexis) 12 June a1 The vehicle had hit a road bomb made of an Italian land mine with a flechette round.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	flechette
释义	flechetten. Brit. /fleɪˈʃɛt/, /flɛˈʃɛt/, U.S. /fleɪˈʃɛt/, /flɛˈʃɛt/ Forms: 1800s– flechette, 1900s– flechet, 1900s– fléchette, 1900s– flêchette. Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French fléchette. Etymology: < French fléchette small arrow, dart (1825 or earlier denoting a game played outside using a target), dart-shaped steel projectile dropped from an aircraft (1914 or earlier) < flèche arrow (see flèche n.) + -ette -ette suffix. 1. In singular and plural. An outdoor game in which each player throws small darts at a mounted circular board. Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > darts > [noun] > specific type of game flechette1888 shanghai1930 1888 York Herald 24 Jan. A new game has taken Paris by storm, and is almost as great a feature in French life as lawn tennis is in England; this is flechettes. 1907 Country-side 27 July 167/3 The Game of Flechette can be confidently recommended to amuse the seniors at a garden party. 1995 Panama City (Florida) News Herald 2 July 7 e/1 The festivities will start at 5:30 p.m. with outdoor games: jeux de Petanque, Golf, Flechettes, etc. 2. Military. a. A pointed steel projectile resembling a dart or arrow, dropped from an aircraft; (originally and chiefly) spec. a weapon of this type that was used against infantry and cavalry in the First World War (1914–18). ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > missile > [noun] > missile dropped from aircraft flechette1914 1914 Times 24 Nov. 9/6 Then the French fliers started work with their ‘fléchettes’, horrid little arrows of steel which penetrate through a man's head or shoulder. 1919 Wide World Mag. Sept. 357/1 We amused ourselves..by diving at the working parties, chasing them into the water, and then dropping ‘flechettes’..to liven things up a bit. 2001 N.Y. Times Mag. 5 Aug. 55/1 One application being rods, or ‘flechettes’, designed to be tossed down to earth from space. 2007 K. Dockery Future Weapons 46 German soldiers had been completely penetrated by a flechette going all the way through their body. b. A type of small, needle-like ammunition used in bombs, shells, or guns; (also) a shell containing ammunition of this type. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > missile > ammunition for firearms > [noun] > bullet or shell > shell > other types of shell carcass1684 light ball1729 anchor ball1779 shrapnel1810 hollow shot1862 segment-shell1862 blind-shell1864 ring-shot1868 star shell1876 ring-shell1879 pipsqueak1900 Black Maria1914 coal box1914 crump1914 Jack Johnson1914 Archie1915 Little Willie1915 whizz-bang1915 woolly bear1915 fizzbang1916 five-ninea1918 ashcan1918 cream puff1918 sea-bag1918 pudding1919 G.I. can1929 flechette1961 1961 Independent Star-News (Pasadena, Calif.) 9 Apr. 26/4 We are working on several applications of the principle in which flechettes are fired from various weapons. 1969 Australian 27 Nov. 9/1 It sprays needle-like projectiles with lethal effect of a wide area. The metal arrows, roughly two inches long, are known as flechets. 1988 Times 10 Aug. 7/1 Two tanks began firing fléchettes into the nearest valley. 1999 J. Elliot Unexpected Light (2000) viii. 298 We were shown tank shells and artillery shells; some filled with phosphorus, high explosive, or thousands of tiny steel flechettes. 2004 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 3 Oct. i. 8/1 Doctors in Gaza say they have pulled fléchettes from dead and wounded Palestinian fighters. Compounds General attributive and objective with participles (in sense 2b), as flechette-firing, flechette gun, flechette round, etc. ΚΠ 1964 Monroe (Louisiana) Morning World 29 Mar. 3 b/1 Asked about treating ‘fleshette [sic] wounds’, an Army medical man was quoted by Army Times as saying, ‘It's a job for Graves Commission.’ 1965 Pop. Mech. Feb. 264/2 The grenade firing capability of the SPIW is..completely interchangeable with the flechette portion of the weapon. 1969 Republican-Courier (Findlay, Ohio) 16 Jan. a9/3 It seems rather likely that flechette firing weapons..will become very potent additions to our military arsenal. 1975 L. Sanders Tomorrow File 148 Their pipe-barreled flechette guns were pointed at the house. 1994 Fighting Firearms Autumn 44/3 Steyr-Mannlicher's flechette-firing 14.5mm AMR rifle does not yet exist in deployable form. 2009 Toronto Star (Nexis) 12 June a1 The vehicle had hit a road bomb made of an Italian land mine with a flechette round. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1888
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