shrap|nel

shrap|nel
shrap|nel «SHRAP nuhl», noun.
1. an artillery shell filled with pellets and powder, set to explode in the air and scatter pellets or shell fragments over a wide area.
2. such shells collectively: »

to fire a barrage of shrapnel.

3. one or more of the pellets or fragments scattered by the explosion of such a shell: »

to be wounded by shrapnel.

[< Henry Shrapnel, 1761-1842, a British army officer, who invented it]

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  • Shrapnel — Shrap nel, a. Applied as an appellation to a kind of shell invented by Gen. H. Shrapnel of the British army. n. A shrapnel shell; shrapnel shells, collectively. [1913 Webster] {Shrapnel shell} (Gunnery), a projectile for a cannon, consisting of a …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

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