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单词 shrapnel shot
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Shrapnel shot
a. attributive or in the genitive, as Shrapnel shell, Shrapnel shot, etc.In later use with lower-case initial, understood as an ordinary attributive use of sense 1b.
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1806 Capt. J. F. Ogilvie in H. N. S. Shrapnel Petition House of Lords (1868) 14 The excellent effect of your Spherical Case (Shrapnel Shells).
1807 Sir R. Wilson in Life Gen. R. Wilson (1862) II. 148 If we had only some of Shrapnell's shot.
1809 Polit. Rev. July p. xvi Those new, ingenious instruments of wholesale murder, the Congreve rockets, and the Shrapnel shot.
1812 Lieut. Boucher in H. N. S. Shrapnel Petition House of Lords (1868) 10 The French complained much of the ‘Shrapnel Case Shot’.
1812 Duke of Wellington Dispatches (1837) IX. 32 I enclose the answer which I have received from Marshal William Beresford..respecting the value of the spherical case shot called Shrapnell's shells.
1846 G. G. Meade Let. 27 Sept. in Life & Lett. (1913) I. 136 A piece of artillery was taken to pieces and carried up by hand to the summit, which piece..threw shrapnel shells..right into the palace.
1864 in F. Moore Rebellion Rec. (1868) XI. 500/1 General Martindale's sword was struck by a shrapnel shot and indented greatly.
1916 Daily Mail 29 Mar. 4/3 Shrapnel shell was unsuited to the disablement of aeroplanes.
1918 tr. L. Andreyev Seven that were Hanged i. ii. 111 A belated shrapnel-shot shrieked and burst, and everything grew still.
1944 Daily Tel. 22 Feb. 4/6 Most people know what a shrapnel shell (now temporarily obsolete) used to be.
2003 Eng. in Afr. 30 44 British cannon bombarded Nxele's men with shrapnel shell and ensured their rout.
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