Time Traveler for shrapnel The first known use of shrapnel was in See more words from the same year. From the Editors at Merriam-Webster. Style: MLA. English Language Learners Definition of shrapnel. Kids Definition of shrapnel. Get Word of the Day daily email! Test Your Vocabulary. Test your visual vocabulary with our question challenge! Love words? Need even more definitions? Just between us: it's complicated. Ask the Editors 'Everyday' vs. If he had eaten my sandwich, there'd be shrapnel all over the place from him tearing open the bag.
The lenses have been known to stop flying shrapnel from entering the eyes of our troops. We were bombed rather a lot, but I enjoyed collecting shrapnel. All rights reserved. Filters 0. Shrapnel is defined as a fragments from an exploded shell or bomb. The balls scattered by such an explosion. Fragments from an exploded artillery shell, mine, or bomb. Surrounded by his family under a shrapnel -damaged tin roof, he says he has lived in Al Shajaya all his life. In this way the missile does not need pinpoint accuracy: widely spread supersonic shrapnel from the warhead is deadly.
In theory, someone could be relatively close to the explosion and survive since the shrapnel would zip by harmlessly overhead. A couple weeks ago, I found a pea-sized shard of shrapnel from a past attack in a parking lot. The new polio threat is a major and predictable consequence of war, just like shrapnel injuries and broken families. Yesterday and to-day we have fired, for us, a terrible lot of shells 1, shrapnel but never was shot better spent.
The flower of the insurgent army was there, well armed and supplied with artillery and shrapnel shell. As that big oblong crowd of Turks showed their left flank to Baikie's nine batteries they were swept in enfilade by shrapnel.
You could see the shrapnel bursting on the ground, and perhaps setting fire to something or other.
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