grenade: [16] The original grenades were small spherical explosive-filled cases with a wick on top. In shape, they bore more than a passing resemblance to pomegranates. The Old French term for ‘pomegranate’ was pome grenate, or just grenate for short, and it was this abbreviated form, altered to grenade under the influence of the related Spanish granada, that was applied to the explosive device. Grenadier [17] came from the French derivative grenadier ‘grenadethrower’. => grain, grenadier, pomegranate
grenade (n.)
"small explosive shell," thrown rather than discharged from a cannon, 1590s, earlier "pomegranate" (1520s), from Middle French grenade "pomegranate" (16c.), earlier grenate (12c.), from Old French pomegrenate (see pomegranate). Form influenced by Spanish granada. So called because the many-seeded fruit suggested the powder-filled, fragmenting bomb, or from similarities of shape. See pomegranate. Much used late 17c., they went out of use 18c. but were revived 20c.
例文
1. Simon caught the grenade and hurled it back.
サイモンは手榴弾を受けて、またそれを力強く投げ返した。
2.He was hit by shrapnel from a grenade .
手榴弾の弾片に撃たれた。
3.He killed two policemen with a grenade .
彼は手榴弾で2人の警察官を爆破した。
4.The hand- grenade exploded right over the enemy.
手榴弾が敵の頭に花を咲かせる。
5.Then with a loud explosion a hand- grenade immediately blew the whole group of officers into a disorderly pile of dead bodies.