Meaning of Mills bomb | Babel Free

Definitions

Any of a series of British fragmentation hand grenades.

Examples

“They made a rush forward again, the dust and smoke clearing a little, and they heard the elastic twang of Mills bombs as they reached an empty trench, very narrow where shelling had not wrecked or levelled it.”

“He said when he pulled the pin out of the Mills bomb, he was always afraid it would go off before he got it out of his hand.”

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