hand-grenade

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See also: hand grenade

English

Noun

hand-grenade (plural hand-grenades)

Alternative form of hand grenade.
- 1890, Jacob A[ugust] Riis, “The Awakening”, in How the Other Half Lives: Studies among the Tenements of New York, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, page 20:
  The bullet-proof shutters, the stacks of hand-grenades, and the Gatling guns of the Sub-Treasury are tacit admissions of the fact and of the quality of the mercy expected.
- 1929 May–October, Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms, 1st British edition, London: Jonathan Cape , published 1929, →OCLC, book II, page 131:
  ‘A hand-grenade. One of those potato-mashers. It just blew the whole side of my foot off.’
- 1987, Stuart Rintoul, Ashes of Vietnam: Australian voices, page 126:
  I went back in and threw a hand-grenade under the bed and then I brassed up the house. They were dead, of course.
- 2006 January 29, Brownstein, “Man loses detonator roulette”, in The Gazette, page B2, column 2:
  But what could Croatian chimney-sweeper Marko have been thinking by using a hand-grenade as a weight for his broom and then turning on his welding apparatus in the cleaning process?

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