minenwerfer
See also: Minenwerfer
English
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editEtymology
editFrom German Minenwerfer, from Mine + Werfer (“mortar”).
Pronunciation
editNoun
editminenwerfer (plural minenwerfers or minenwerfer)
- (military, now historical) A type of trench mortar used by German forces especially during the First World War, or the shells fired by such a mortar. [from 20th c.]
- 1929, Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms, Folio Society, published 2008, page 59:
- Something landed outside that shook the earth. ‘Four hundred twenty or minnenwerfer,’ Gavuzzi said.