Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A steel missile or dart dropped from an aircraft or fired from an artillery piece.
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- noun A small sharp antipersonnel
projectile , used asshrapnel , fired from ashotgun , or scattered from an aircraft. - noun dated The game of lawn darts.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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With that the dark prince reached to his belt for the twin flechette guns that hung there in jeweled holsters.
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Kay's sumptuous bath had to be set up in the box-room, between two towel-horses and an old box of selected games which contained a worn-out straw dart-board-it was called flechette in those days-because all the other rooms were full of packing.
NPR Topics: Opinion 2010
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Kay's sumptuous bath had to be set up in the box-room, between two towel-horses and an old box of selected games which contained a worn-out straw dart-board-it was called flechette in those days-because all the other rooms were full of packing.
NPR Topics: Opinion 2010
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And these are arrows that come out from the so-called flechette bombs, which are also forbidden because they resemble [ "dum-dum"] bombs.
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Kay's sumptuous bath had to be set up in the box-room, between two towel-horses and an old box of selected games which contained a worn-out straw dart-board-it was called flechette in those days-because all the other rooms were full of packing.
NPR Topics: News 2010
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Kay's sumptuous bath had to be set up in the box-room, between two towel-horses and an old box of selected games which contained a worn-out straw dart-board-it was called flechette in those days-because all the other rooms were full of packing.
NPR Topics: News 2010
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The only other fad I don't think has been debunked yet is the "flechette". 3mm super-strong tungsten darts fired at velocities past 5000 fps.
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The only other fad I don't think has been debunked yet is the "flechette". 3mm super-strong tungsten darts fired at velocities past 5000 fps.
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Another missile which has been introduced by the French airmen, and which is extremely deadly when hurled against dense masses of men, is the steel arrow, or "flechette" as it is called.
Aeroplanes and Dirigibles of War Frederick Arthur Ambrose Talbot
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Three more family members were also injured, again by the thousands of 'flechette' darts unleashed by the nail bomb assault.
bilby commented on the word flechette
"Almost all the facts were already known: the bombing of civilian neighborhoods, the use of flechette rounds and white phosphorus against civilian targets, the bombing of mosques and schools, the blocking of rescue parties from reaching the wounded, the killing of fleeing civilians carrying white flags, the use of human shields, and more."
- Uri Avnery, UM-Shmum, UM-Boom, avnery-news.co.il, 19 September 2009.
September 23, 2009