| Shrapnel 1. (a.) Applied as an appellation to a kind of shell invented by Gen. H. Shrapnel of the British army. 2. (n.) A shrapnel shell; shrapnel shells, collectively. Thesaurus Entries ball, bar shot, bird shot, buckshot, bullet, cannon shot, cannonball, case shot, crossbar shot, duck shot, dumdum bullet, expanding bullet, grape, grapeshot, langrel shot, manstopping bullet, pellet, rifle ball, round shot, shell, shot, slug, split shot |