Definition of Shrapnel

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Definition of Shrapnel
	Shrapnel Applied as an appellation to a kind of shell invented by Gen. H. Shrapnel of the British army. A shrapnel shell; shrapnel shells, collectively. Related Definitions: An, Appellation, Applied, Army, As, British, By, Collectively, Invented, Kind, Of, Shell, Shrapnel, The, To

Shrapnel Quotations

The word experience is like a shrapnel shell, and bursts into a thousand meanings.
George Santayana

Human nerves quickly get accustomed to the most unusual conditions and circumstances and I noticed that quite a number of men actually fell asleep from sheer exhaustion in the trenches, in spite of the roaring of the cannon about us and the whizzing of shrapnel over our heads.
Fritz Kreisler

When we got down from the ambulances there were sharp cracks about us as bursts of shrapnel splashed down upon the Town Hall square. Dead soldiers lay outside and I glanced at them coldly. We were in search of the living.
Philip Gibbs

Suddenly, at about ten o'clock, a dull thud sounded somewhere far away from us, and simultaneously we saw a small white round cloud about half a mile ahead of us where the shrapnel had exploded. The battle had begun.
Fritz Kreisler

Hats divide generally into three classes: offensive hats, defensive hats, and shrapnel.
Katharine Whitehorn

Shrapnel Translations

shrapnel in Dutch is granaatkartets, shrapnel
shrapnel in German is Schrapnell
shrapnel in Hungarian is srapnel
shrapnel in Spanish is shrapnel

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