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- noun Plural form of
grenado .
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Examples
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These had with them eleven thousand and two hundred cannons, double cannons, long pieces of artillery called basilisks, and smaller sized ones known by the name of spirols, besides the mortar-pieces and grenadoes.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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These had with them eleven thousand and two hundred cannons, double cannons, long pieces of artillery called basilisks, and smaller sized ones known by the name of spirols, besides the mortar-pieces and grenadoes.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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Forward we could hear musket-shot, and grenadoes, -- but none of these things fell where we were at work.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 84, October, 1864 Various
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The Duke then "broke ground," to use a military expression, about three hundred yards from the citadel, at the Spring Garden; and encountered the fire of the cannon from the town, approaching so near that the garrison even threw grenadoes at them.
Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume III. Mrs. Thomson
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Upon which he immediately retired to his boat, and he was no sooner got into it, but he saw five fellows running under shore, with lighted matches and grenadoes in their hands to have intercepted him, but seeing him out of their reach, they retired to the ship.
Lives of the Most Remarkable Criminals Who have been Condemned and Executed for Murder, the Highway, Housebreaking, Street Robberies, Coining or other offences Arthur L. Hayward
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Besides, they formed a gallery of flat pallisadoes quite round, covered with earth, which screened it from the effects of grenadoes.
History of Louisisana Or of the Western Parts of Virginia and Carolina: Containing -1775 Le Page du Pratz
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We slipped away at last, leaving him still discussing the effects produced by the Austrian grenadoes upon a
Micah Clarke His Statement as made to his three grandchildren Joseph, Gervas and Reuben During the Hard Winter of 1734 Arthur Conan Doyle 1894
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They plied the defenders of the tower so warmly with their grenadoes, and pelted them so sharply with their fusees that they soon made the place too hot for them.
John Deane of Nottingham Historic Adventures by Land and Sea William Henry Giles Kingston 1847
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Over this was a row of thick planks or beams, with holes pierced through them in order to communicate the fire from above, and upon them were placed 340 carcases filled with grenadoes, cannon-balls, iron chains, firearms loaded with ball, large pieces of metal wrapped up in tarpaulins, and other combustible matters.
How Britannia Came to Rule the Waves Updated to 1900 William Henry Giles Kingston 1847
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I suppose for shells, shot, cutlasses, spears, hand-grenadoes, and a variety of small articles, too many to be enumerated in such a general calculation, the sum of 1,000,000
The Diplomatic Correspondence of the American Revolution, Vol. I Jared Sparks 1827
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