单词 | light ball |
释义 | > as lemmaslight ball light ball n. Military (now historical) a combustible projectile fired from a mortar at night, to illuminate the activities of the enemy. 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 1729 G. Shelvocke, Jr. tr. K. Siemienowicz Great Art Artillery iv. 285 These Light Balls may be so contrived as to be of a Mortal Nature, and by that means serve in a double Capacity, of dispersing Darkness, and destroying the Enemy. 1859 F. A. Griffiths Artillerist's Man. (1862) 86 Light balls burn from 10 to 20 minutes. 2012 Internat. Jrnl. Hist. Archaeol. 16 186 Light balls.., which would not have stored well, may have been better made up as needed. < as lemmas |
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