GRENADE

Dictionary of Science, Literature and Art · 1842 · p. 20

A hollow ball of iron about two inches and a half in diameter, charged with gunpowder and furnished with a proper fuse; it is often called a hand grenade, being thrown from the parapets of besieged places upon the invaders beneath. GRENADIERS, was the name given at first to tha soldiers who threw the grenade; but it was afterwards [s. 543]