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Definition of Gas shell
1. Noun. (military) bomb consisting of an explosive projectile filled with a toxic gas that is released when the bomb explodes.
Category relationships: Armed Forces, Armed Services, Military, Military Machine, War Machine
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gas Shell
Literary usage of Gas shell
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. History of the World War by Frank Herbert Simonds (1919)
"The great advantage of the gas shell is that it combines the accuracy of fire
... Owing to the ability of gas to move around corners the gas shell can take ..."
2. The Armies of Industry: Our Nation's Manufacture of Munitions for a World in by Benedict Crowell, Robert Forrest Wilson (1921)
"This was to be exchanged for gas shell produced by the French. In late July the
French had no more extra shell to be filled with American gas, and this fact ..."
3. Chemical Warfare by Amos Alfred Fries, Clarence Jay West (1921)
"While a great deal of this work had been carried out in Europe, American gas
shell were enough different to require that tests be carried out on them. ..."
4. Gas Warfare by Edward Samuel Farrow (1920)
"CHAPTER VI Chemical Artillery Ammunition, Construction of gas shell, Types of
American Shell, Smoke Shell, Incendiary Shell and Fuses, Fillings for Gun and ..."
5. How America Went to War: An Account from Official Sources of the Nation's by Benedict Crowell, Robert Forrest Wilson (1921)
"This was to be exchanged for gas shell produced by the French. In late July the
French had no more extra shell to be filled with American gas, and this fact ..."
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