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Star shell   /stɑr ʃɛl/   Listen
Star shell

noun
1.
An artillery shell containing an illuminant.





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"Star shell" Quotes from Famous Books



... his range and has the barrage well in hand (the quantity and quality of Madame's gesticulations furnish the key to this) before Colin drifts off the horizon and shows a peaked face with haunting eyes over George's shoulder. Colin does not speak. That is not his metier. He is the star shell illuminating the position; and usually in about six minutes' time it is safe for John to put in an ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 156, Jan. 29, 1919 • Various
... heard forward in the darkness. Now and then machine guns chatter insanely as they tuck a seam in the night. At infrequent intervals, a star shell curves upward, bursts, suspends its silent whiteness in ...
— "And they thought we wouldn't fight" • Floyd Gibbons
... night was falling and the German flares were commencing to fly. On the way back we met two Algerian troopers and in the gleam of a star shell and the fading twilight they looked more like two escaped denizens of the chamber of horrors than anything I could well imagine. Indeed, their appearance was so ghastly under the weird light of the flares and the fading day, that I involuntarily shivered, hardened ...
— S.O.S. Stand to! • Reginald Grant
... down the street to where the row of poplars hid what lay beyond. Far beyond a star shell had risen above the flat fields and floated there, a pure and lovely thing, shedding its white light over the terrain below. It gleamed for some thirty seconds and ...
— The Amazing Interlude • Mary Roberts Rinehart
... A star shell was developed which, when fired in the vicinity of an enemy fleet, would light it up, make ships visible, and render them easy targets without disclosing the position of our own ...
— Our Navy in the War • Lawrence Perry


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