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Definition of Rifle grenade
1. Noun. A grenade that is thrown from a launching device attached to the barrel of a rifle.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Rifle Grenade
Literary usage of Rifle grenade
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Text-book of Ordnance and Gunnery by William Harvey Tschappat (1917)
"The Babbitt rifle grenade, invented by Col. EB Babbitt, Ord. Dept, USA, is similar
to the hand grenades described above except that instead of being ..."
2. America's Part in the World War: A History of the Full Greatness of Our by Richard Joseph Beamish, Francis Andrew March (1919)
"The rifle grenade is made to fit on the holder at the muzzle of an ordinary ...
After the rifle grenade had been redesigned their production proceeded with ..."
3. America's Part in the World War: A History of the Full Greatness of Our by Richard Joseph Beamish, Francis Andrew March (1919)
"The rifle grenade is made to fit on the holder at the muzzle of an ordinary ...
After the rifle grenade had been redesigned their production proceeded with ..."
4. Trench Warfare: A Manual for Officers and Men by Joseph Shuter Smith (1917)
"The detonator having been inserted in the bomb is ready for throwing as* soon as
the safety pin has been drawn. rifle grenade No. ..."
5. The International Military Digest Annual by Cornélis De Witt Willcox (1916)
"In another form, the "rifle- grenade," they are used at a longer range. ...
Each rifle-grenade is a stout brass tube, ¡l/2 inches long by i^ inches in ..."
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