shrapnell in English

noun

small metal fragments dispersed by the explosion of a bomb or missile

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1. Disintegrated bodies, men cut in pieces, ripped off limbs, disfigured faces, soldiers bleeding to death by huge open wounds or internal hemorragies whose only external visible sign was the small hole created by a tiny shrapnell, organs destroyed by the explosion shock , bodies projected in the air and broken, intoxicated men, blinded, Asphyxied

2. Barclay 'Titch' Shrapnell Bailes (9 August 1883 – 24 September 1955), sometimes known as "Bark" Bailes, was an Australian rules footballer who played for the Perth in the West Australian Football League (WAFA) in 1904, for Fitzroy Football Club in the Victorian Football League (VFL) from 1905 to 1909, and for Brighton in the Victorian Football Association (VFA), from 1910 to 1915.