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Definition of Flechettes
1. flechette [n] - See also: flechette
Lexicographical Neighbors of Flechettes
Literary usage of Flechettes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Tentative System of Subject Headings for the Literature of Military by Fremont Rider (1922)
"... See AERONAUTICS See "flechettes" See AERONAUTICS—THEORY OF AEROGRAPHY See also
AERIAL ARTILLERY AEROGRAPHY ANTI-AIRCRAFT ARTILLERY BALLOONS BOMBS—AERIAL ..."
2. The Peak of the Load: The Waiting Months on the Hilltop from the Entrance of by Mildred Aldrich (1918)
"... lying along miles of the fields, across the Marne, flechettes, thin white
lines of light, mounted like silver arrows straight into the air at regular ..."
3. Erased in a Moment: Suicide Bombing Attacks Against Israeli Civilians by Joe Stork (2002)
"On January 23, 2002, the IDF announced the results of an investigation, saying
that they had been killed by tank shells packed with flechettes, and that one ..."
4. Aircraft in the Great War: A Record and Study by Claude Grahame-White, Harry Harper (1915)
"The first use of " flechettes " in the war was at the beginning of September,
when French airmen, armed with boxes of them, attacked German troops in ..."
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