grenade

     

A han grenade is a small hand-held anti-personnel weapon designed to be thrown and then explode after a short time. The word "grenade" is derived from the French "grenade" (meaning pomegranate, the fruit originally called in French "Pomme-grenade" or "grenade-apple," in reference to the general size of early grenades and because its shrapnel pellets reminded soldiers of the seeds of this fruit). Grenadiers were originally soldiers who specialized in throwing grenades.

Trivia about grenade

  • This projectile's name comes from the Late Latin for "pomegranate"
  • It's a small explosive bomb either thrown by hand or fired from a launcher
  • Marine Corporal Duane Dewey, for throwing himself on one of these to protect his comrades (He survived)
  • In 2011 Bruno Mars blew up the charts with a song that says, "I'd catch a" this "for ya, throw my hand on a blade for ya"
  • Introduced in World War I, the Mills bomb was actually one of these flung weapons

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