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Mills bombs

Mills bombs is the plural of Mills bomb.

Meaning of Mills bomb

Noun

Mills bomb (plural Mills bombs)

  1. Any of a series of British fragmentation hand grenades.
    • 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.1929, Frederic Manning, The Middle Parts of Fortune, Vintage, published 2014, page 10

Questions about Mills bombs

What is Mills bombs the plural of?
Mills bombs is the plural of Mills bomb.

Words near Mills bombs in the dictionary

  1. millrynds
  2. mills
  3. mills about
  4. mills around
  5. Mills bomb
  6. Mills bombs
  7. Mills County
  8. Mills Hill
  9. Mills Mess
  10. Mills' Mess
  11. Mills-and-Boonish

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