Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In ordnance, a shell, invented by M. Abel, consisting of an ordinary shell with a centrally placed cylinder of guncotton, having the space between this cylinder and the walls of the shell filled with water. The shell is hermetically sealed to retain the water.
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He thought of the peculiar grey-blue sky, which the Wise men had taught him bore up within its whirling self vast oceans of water, waiting for the time to drop the whirling water-shell upon them all.
The Sun King Gaston Derreaux
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