Word Meanings - TORPEDOSHELL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A shell longer than a deck-piercing shell, with thinner walls and a larger cavity for the bursting charge, which consists of about 130 pounds of high explosive. It has no soft cap, and is intended to effect its damage by the powerful explosion which follows on slight resistance. It is used chiefly in 12-inch mortars.

• Shellbark
  A species of hickory (Carya alba) whose outer bark is loose and peeling; a shagbark; also, its nut.
• Slighty
  Slight.
• Charges d'affaires
  of Charge d'affaires
• Effecter
  One who effects.
• Effectuous
  Effective.
• Sheller
  One who, or that which, shells; as, an oyster sheller; a corn sheller.
• Thinner
  One who thins, or makes thinner.
• Charge d'affaires
  A diplomatic representative, or minister of an inferior grade, accredited by the government of one state to the minister of foreign affairs of another; also, a substitute, ad interim, for an ambassador or minister plenipotentiary.
• Effectible
  Capable of being done or achieved; practicable; feasible.
• Effectuously
  Effectively.
• Pierced
  of Pierce
• Shellfish
  Any aquatic animal whose external covering consists of a shell, either testaceous, as in oysters, clams, and other mollusks, or crustaceous, as in lobsters and crabs.
• Chargeful
  Costly; expensive.
• Effection
  Creation; a doing.
• Explosion
  The act of exploding; detonation; a chemical action which causes the sudden formation of a great volume of expanded gas; as, the explosion of gunpowder, of fire damp,etc.
• Piercing
  of Pierce
• Shell-less
  Having no shell.

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