hand-grenade
(ˈhændgrɪˌneɪd)
Also 7–9 -grenado, 7–8 -granado.
1. An explosive missile, smaller than a bombshell, thrown by hand.
| a 1661 Fuller Worthies ii. (1662) 61 If they lye board and board they throw hand-Granadoes with stinck-pots into the ship which make so noisom a smell that, [etc.]. 1684 J. Peter Siege Vienna 43 A Hundred fresh Men armed with Hand-Granadoes. 1719 De Foe Crusoe ii. ix, The boatswain..called for a hand-grenado, and threw it among them. 1809–10 Coleridge Friend (1865) 83 The result and relict of this author-like hand-grenado. 1859 F. A. Griffiths Artil. Man. 91 A Land service Hand grenade weighs 1 lb. 13 oz., and may be thrown from 40 to 60 feet. |
2. A glass bottle containing a chemical, to be broken in order to extinguish fire.
| 1895 Army & Navy Coöp. Soc. Price List Sept. 286 Fire Extinguishers (Imperial Hand Grenade)..The Harden Star Hand Grenades. |
Hence hand-greˈnading vbl. n., the throwing of hand-grenades.
| 1882 Standard 25 Aug. 3/7 [They] remained on the camp side of the river, escalading, hand grenading, and double lock bridge building. 1884 Milit. Engin. I. ii. 102 The squad will then be put through the hand grenading drill in slow time. Ibid. 105 The stores being arranged in the same order as for hand-grenading. |