grenado arch.
(grɪˈneɪdəʊ)
Forms: α. 7–8 granado(e, 7–9 granada, (7 granida). β. 7– grenado.
[ad. Sp. granada: see grenade n.1 and -ado.]
1. = grenade1 2.
| α 1611 N. T. in Coryat Crambe b j a, Of some Oxe-hide in Styx long drenched, Or that had some Granada quenched. [Marg. A warlike engine otherwise called a Mortar, vsually quenched with wet Hides.] 1626 Capt. Smith Accid. Yng. Sea-men 32 Iron bals, granadoes, trunkes of wilde fire. 1652–62 Heylyn Cosmogr. ii. (1682) 126 Mortar-pieces and Granado's in proportion to them. a 1670 Hacket Abp. Williams i. (1693) 75 One..trouled out a Motion crammed like a Granada with obsolete Words. 1675 Lond. Gaz. No. 1052/2 The Besiegers began to shoot from six Mortar-pieces into the Town, Granadoes of 2 and 300 pound each. 1686 Goad Celest. Bodies ii. iv. 200 So have I seen a Granado in the Air, fuming as it went along in a sullen silence. 1690 Norris Beatitudes (1692) 67 More like Granidas shot into a Town, than Inhabitants of it. 1727 A. Hamilton New Acc. E. Ind. II. xli. 105 We saluted them with a Shower of twenty or thirty Granadoes. 1761 Sterne Tr. Shandy III. xvi, It would have broke the cerebellum (unless indeed the skull had been as hard as a granado). |
| β 1676 tr. Guillatiere's Voy. Athens 404 Those who were to throw the Grenadoes. 1729 G. Shelvocke Artillery iv. 173 Very old Grenado's..shaped perfectly like a Cube or Parallelopiped. 1807–8 W. Irving Salmag. (1824) 364 More fell to our port is the cargo she bears Than grenadoes, torpedoes, or warlike affairs. 1865 Carlyle Fredk. Gt. xviii. xiii. (1872) VIII. 41 Stoffeln..began firing shells and incendiary grenadoes at a great rate. |
| fig. c 1645 Howell Lett. I. vi. xlii, Fires..kindled at first by a Granado hurl'd from his brain. 1651 Biggs New Disp. ¶170. 131 Those mortar-pieces and granadoes of Physick. 1677 A. Yarranton Eng. Improv. 14, I will now shoot a Granado into London..I hope 'twill make them look about them. |
2. = grenade1 1.
| 1656 Blount Glossogr., Granado, a Pomegranat, an apple filled with delicious grains. |
3. attrib. and
Comb., as
grenado gun,
grenado-maker,
grenado-man,
grenado mortar,
grenado shell,
grenado shot;
† grenado-netherstock, some fashion of hose.
| 1690 Luttrell Brief Rel. (1857) II. 42 There have been lately ship't away..several *granado guns. |
| 1670 Clarendon Ess. Tracts (1727) 183 Gun-smiths, or *granado-makers. |
| 1676 tr. Guillatiere's Voy. Athens 404 Above thirty were cut off by those *Grenado men. |
| 1631 Prempart Siege Busse 25 Twoo *Granado Morters. |
| 1599 Marston Sco. Villanie 167 Ribanded eares, *Granado-netherstocks, Fidlers, scriueners [etc.]. |
| 1684 J. Peter Siege Vienna 80 Certain *Granado Shells he had Invented, not of Glass or any Metal, but of Potters Clay wrought..to the hardness of Iron. 1790 Beatson Nav. & Mil. Mem. I. 100 A party..was ordered to march next to them, with the grenado shells in bags. |
| 1705 Sir E. Walker Hist. Disc. i. 38 Firing the Magazine within with a *Granado shot. |