Read full poem →when they throw in a few gas
and the oh baby shrapnel
or my feet getting dim freezing or
Dictionary Entry
An anti-personnel artillery shell used in WWI which carries a large number of individual bullets close to the target and then ejects them to allow them to continue along the shell's trajectory and strike the target individually.
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Common Phrases
. shrapnelwounds shrapnelshell shrapnelshells shrapnelwound shrapnelshrapnel flying
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Poetry examples for “shrapnel”
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