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Noun Concept

Categories: Articles with short description, English inventions, Artillery shells

shrapnel shrapnel shell

Shell containing lead pellets that explodes in flight WordNet 3.0

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Shell containing lead pellets that explodes in flight WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet

Shrapnel shells were anti-personnel artillery munitions which carried many individual bullets close to a target area and then ejected them to allow them to continue along the shell's trajectory and strike targets individually. Wikipedia

Explosive artillery munitions, generally for anti-personnel use Wikipedia Disambiguation

An anti-personnel artillery shell used in WWI which carries a large number of individual bullets close to the target and then ejects them to allow them to continue along the shell's trajectory and strike the target individually. Wiktionary

Artillery shell. Wiktionary (translation)

IS A

shell

DESCRIBED BY SOURCE

Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary

Granat Encyclopedic Dictionary

DISCOVERER OR INVENTOR

Henry Shrapnel

NAMED AFTER

Henry Shrapnel

WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet

shrapnel