Grenade - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: grenadefragmentation grenade
A type of hand grenade designed to burst into multiple fragments upon detonation of the explosive charge the fragments fly away at high velocity killing or wounding persons nearby Contrasted to concussion grenade The common type of fragmentation grenade used by the American military was sometimes jocosely referred to as a pineapple from its reticulated surface appearance resembling that of the fruit...
frag
To assault especially to kill or wound with a fragmentation grenade...
Granade
See Grenade...
Grenade
A hollow ball or shell of iron filled with powder of other explosive ignited by means of a fuse and thrown from the hand among enemies...
Grenadier
Originaly a soldier who carried and threw grenades afterward one of a company attached to each regiment or battalion taking post on the right of the line and wearing a peculiar uniform In modern times a member of a special regiment or corps as a grenadier of the guard of Napoleon I one of the regiment of Grenadier Guards of the British army etc...
Grenado
Same as Grenade...
Firearms
Firearms. This word comprises all sorts of guns, fowling-pieces, blunderbusses, pistols, etc. Their discharge in a street is penal.A weapon that expels a projected (such as ballets or pallets) by combustion of gunpowder or other explosive, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn.For the purposes of the (English) Fire Arms Act, 1920 (10 & 11 Geo. 5, c. 43), 'firearm' means 'any lethal firearm or other weapon of any description from which any shot, bullet or other missile can be discharged, or any part thereof, and the expression 'ammunition' means ammunition for any such firearms, and includes grenades, bombs, and other similar missiles, whether such missiles are capable of use with a firearm or not. The (English) Firearms Act, 1934 (24 & 25 Geo. 5, c. 16), amends the definition by including smoothbore shot gun, air gun, or air rifle and ammunition, if deemed a lethal weapon. A person under seventeen shall not purchase or hire, nor shall anyone sell to such person, a firearm or ammunition. A pe...
Prohibited ammunition
Prohibited ammunition, means any ammunition, containing, or designed or adapted to contain, any noxious liquid, gas or other such thing, and includes rockets, bombs, grenades, shells, missiles articles designed for torpedo service and submarine mining and such other articles as the Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, specify to be prohibited ammu-nition. [Arms Act, 1959 (54 of 1959), s. 2 (1) (h)]...
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