Definition of Hand grenade

1. Noun. A grenade designed to be thrown by hand.

Generic synonyms: Grenade

Definition of Hand grenade

1. Noun. (military) A small hand-held explosive device designed to be thrown at the enemy. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Hand Grenade

hand by a hair
hand calculator
hand cart
hand cheese
hand clapping
hand cream
hand down
hand drill
hand dryer
hand dryers
hand dye
hand eczema
hand fern
hand grenade (current term)
hand grenades
hand holes
hand in
hand in glove
hand in hand
hand in one's dinner pail
hand injuries
hand it to somebody
hand jive
hand jobs
hand line
hand log
hand lotion

Literary usage of Hand grenade

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature by H.W. Wilson Company (1915)
"11 Sci Am 112: 427 My 8 '15 Modernizing the hand-grenade. 11 Lit Digest 50:1015-15 My 1 '15 Throwing grenade bouquets to the enemy. Lit Bache. ..."

2. American State Trials: A Collection of the Important and Interesting by John Davison Lawson, Robert Lorenzo Howard (1919)
"The hand-grenade has been known in warfare long ere you and I saw the light. The two things have come together—the hand-grenade, charged no longer with the ..."

3. Reports of State Trials: New Series... 1820 to [1858]...by Great Britain State Trials Committee, John Macdonell, John Edward Power Wallis by Great Britain State Trials Committee, John Macdonell, John Edward Power Wallis (1898)
"—A hand grenade is the nearest, and that is about the same size. Has a hand grenade the numerous nipples, as they have been called, which you see there, ..."

4. Gas Warfare by Edward Samuel Farrow (1920)
"28, Chemical hand grenade, Mark II," and US "Gas hand grenade, Mark II. ... 27 Hand or Rifle Grenade, Mark I," and US "Phosphorus hand grenade, Mark II. ..."

5. The International Military Digest Annual by Cornélis De Witt Willcox (1916)
"The trench warfare in Europe has again brought the hand grenade and ... The British hand-grenade consists of a cane handle 16 in. long with a з-ft. piece of ..."

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