Definitions for hand-grenade

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Hand-Grenade is a 12 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 374 anagrams from letters in hand-grenade (-aaddeeghnnr).

Definitions for hand-grenade

noun

  1. a grenade or explosive shell that is thrown by hand and exploded either by impact or by means of a fuze.
  2. a grenade or glass missile containing a chemical, for extinguishing fire.

Origin of hand-grenade

First recorded in 1655-65

Examples for hand-grenade

Almost with the words he lighted a hand-grenade which he carried in his arms, and threw it toward O'Brien.

What was visible of the face looked as if at some period it had stopped a hand-grenade.

One night, a hand-grenade fell out of the pocket of one of the wounded.

Now, at an opportune moment, a hand-grenade fell among a pile of cartridges strung out on the deck of the Serapis.

He himself was wounded in the leg by the splinter of a hand-grenade.

"Pouches," perhaps a survival of the days of the hand-grenade.

Had a hand-grenade with the fuse alight been dropped upon the table, the consternation could scarce have been greater.

All understood the nature of a hand-grenade, which bursts like a Nihilist's bomb.

After this period I never carried out any further instruction in the hand-grenade.

But playing around with Louis Akers is like playing with a hand-grenade, Edith.

Word Value for hand-grenade
Scrable

8

Words with friends

8

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