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  • noun A variant form of potato masher.

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Examples

  • The Chinese fired off yellow flares and red flares, and they hollered and sprayed pistol bullets with their burp guns and threw those wooden potato-masher grenades with the cast-iron heads.

    I Don't Talk Service No More 1996

  • This potato-masher, which can also serve as a grinder, is one of several small-scale machines adapted by CIP for use in family-based processing enterprises.

    1. The jab-seeder a tool for manual seeding 1992

  • It was a mystery to the Allied armies why their own industries failed to build a direct copy of the 88 mm, the Schmeisser, or the potato-masher.

    Overlord D-Day And The Battle for Normandy Max Hastings 1984

  • The handle on the German “potato-masher” hand grenade enabled it to be thrown far further than its British or American counterparts.

    Overlord D-Day And The Battle for Normandy Max Hastings 1984

  • The handle on the German “potato-masher” hand grenade enabled it to be thrown far further than its British or American counterparts.

    Overlord D-Day And The Battle for Normandy Max Hastings 1984

  • The handle on the German “potato-masher” hand grenade enabled it to be thrown far further than its British or American counterparts.

    Overlord D-Day And The Battle for Normandy Max Hastings 1984

  • It was a mystery to the Allied armies why their own industries failed to build a direct copy of the 88 mm, the Schmeisser, or the potato-masher.

    Overlord D-Day And The Battle for Normandy Max Hastings 1984

  • It was a mystery to the Allied armies why their own industries failed to build a direct copy of the 88 mm, the Schmeisser, or the potato-masher.

    Overlord D-Day And The Battle for Normandy Max Hastings 1984

  • The handle on the German “potato-masher” hand grenade enabled it to be thrown far further than its British or American counterparts.

    Overlord D-Day And The Battle for Normandy Max Hastings 1984

  • It was a mystery to the Allied armies why their own industries failed to build a direct copy of the 88 mm, the Schmeisser, or the potato-masher.

    Overlord D-Day And The Battle for Normandy Max Hastings 1984

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