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Shrapnel

Webster's Dictionary

(1):

(a.) Applied as an appellation to a kind of shell invented by Gen. H. Shrapnel of the British army.

(2):

(n.) A shrapnel shell; shrapnel shells, collectively.

Bibliography Information
Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Shrapnel'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​s/shrapnel.html. 1828.