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noun (plural ~) Etymology: Henry Shrapnel died 1842 English artillery officer Date: 1806 1. a projectile that consists of a case provided with a powder charge and a large number of usually lead balls and that is exploded in flight 2. bomb, mine, or shell fragments ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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n. 1 fragments of a bomb etc. thrown out by an explosion. 2 a shell containing bullets or pieces of metal timed to burst short of impact. Etymology: Gen. H. Shrapnel, Brit. soldier d. 1842, inventor of the shell ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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~ n small pieces of metal from a bomb, bullet etc that are scattered when it explodes (Robert suffers from an old shrapnel wound.) ...Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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- 1806, from Gen. Henry Shrapnel (1761-1841), British army officer who invented a type of exploding, fragmenting shell during the Peninsular War. Sense of "shell fragments" is first recorded 1940. ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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