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Definition of Shrapnel
1. Noun. Shell containing lead pellets that explodes in flight.
Definition of Shrapnel
1. a. Applied as an appellation to a kind of shell invented by Gen. H. Shrapnel of the British army.
Definition of Shrapnel
1. Noun. A collective term for shot, fragments, or debris thrown out by an exploding shell or landmine. ¹
2. Noun. (slang) Loose change. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Shrapnel
1. fragments from an exploding bomb, mine, or shell [n SHRAPNEL]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Shrapnel
Literary usage of Shrapnel
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Recreation by George O. Shields, American Canoe Association, League of American Sportsmen (1898)
"HOW IT FEELS TO BE SHOT WITH A shrapnel BULLET. MASON MITCHELL. Editor RECREATION:
I don't suppose the effect of a wound on any 2 men is alike. ..."
2. Manufacture of Artillery Ammunition by John Herbert Van Deventer, E. A. Suverkrop, Robert Mawson, Fred Herbert Colvin (1917)
"shrapnel shrapnel, because its explosion may be timed to a nicety, ... 1 shows
a shrapnel shell casing such as has been extensively used in the great ..."
3. Tactics by William Balck (1914)
"The effect produced by such shots is, at best, problematical as shrapnel that
fails to function when it strikes the shield, bursts about 1 m. in rear of the ..."
4. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1910)
"shrapnel ¡kell were invented by Lieutenant (afterwards ... shrapnel With rifled
guns the form of the shell Shell. altered, but its character remained. ..."
5. The Americana: A Universal Reference Library, Comprising the Arts and ...by Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines by Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines (1912)
"shrapnel, perfected by Gen. shrapnel of the British army, were designed for ...
1813, when the ramparts were cleared by shrapnel-fire over the heads of the ..."
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