Mills grenade

noun

, Military.

First recorded in 1915–20; named after Sir W. Mills (1856–1932), its English inventor

My own task was to train as many men as possible in the use of the Mills grenade.

Now the new British bomb appears—the Mills grenade, the trench-clearer.

I was lucky to have no accident with the Mills grenade, and no fatal ones even with the rifle-grenade.

The Mills grenade had just made its appearance, and was regarded as a special reserve of power in case of an enemy attack.

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