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Shrapnel
Shrapnel meaning
An anti-personnel artillery shell used in World War I which carries a large number of individual bullets or balls close to the target and then ejects them to allow them to continue along the shell's trajectory and strike the target individually. | The bullets or balls from the aforementioned type of artillery shell. | Any shot, fragments, or debris thrown out by an exploding shell, bomb, or landmine.
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There are two victims - one man received shrapnel wounds to the right forearm, the second - multiple shrapnel wounds to his lower extremities," the governor said on his Telegram channel.
By World War II shrapnel shells, in the strict sense of the word, fell out of use, the last recorded use of shrapnel being 60 pdr shells fired in Burma in 1943.
Development of shrapnel shell This engraving shows a 12-pounder U.S. shrapnel shell c. 1865.
A 60-year-old woman was shot twice in the leg, a 40-year-old man was shot once in the foot, a 36-year-old man was injured by shrapnel in his leg, and a 29-year-old man had a bullet graze wound in his leg.
A Magen David Adom paramedic who attended the scene said he found the seriously injured man lying next to the vehicle, conscious and with shrapnel wounds.
An anaesthetist, who gives his call sign Marik, says the two most seriously injured men just brought in had shrapnel wounds but his team were able to remove tourniquets from their limbs - restoring blood supply so they wouldn't require amputation.
A rocket fired at them from a Grad system had peppered the legs and back of a fellow landmine-clearer with shrapnel.
Begin thinking about what you have: draft notice, photographs, news clippings, greeting cards, letters, notes, telegrams, citations, ribbons, shrapnel.
But there's also the new fear of getting crushed by a pane of glass, getting ripped in half by an elevator, being impaled thanks to a delayed airbag deployment, being blown up by a BBQ grill, and being trisected by fence shrapnel.
Gaping gashes from shrapnel in the courtyard walls around her testify to the dangers of venturing outside -- exposed and without the body armour that Ukrainian soldiers defending Vuhledar wear when they emerge from their bunkers.
He died from gunshot and shrapnel wounds.
He was evacuated by hospital ship to the UK and was serving with a Reserve Battalion in September 1918 when an X-Ray showed shrapnel still embedded in the base of his tongue.
He was wounded a few weeks ago by shrapnel from a land mine.
His sister was hit by shrapnel.
In April, Olga was killed by shrapnel from an explosion when she “ran out for cigarettes”, an eyewitness said.
It was later ascertained that Butch has been killed during the landing at Tarakan with a piece of shrapnel striking him in the chest killing him instantly.
Jimmy was wounded by a bayonet and shrapnel to his knee and went to a recuperation centre in Edinburgh, before serving in Egypt and Palestine in 1946.
Kidd needed surgery after being hit with a piece of shrapnel – and required the pain meds that earned the episode its title – over on the set again, with a distressed Severide staying by her side in recovery.
Kinsley was hit by shrapnel, which lodged in her cheek.
Knight was grazed by a bullet fragment - or shrapnel - from the car.