shrap‧nel /ˈʃræpn
əl/
noun [uncountable][
Date: 1800-1900;
Origin: Henry Shrapnel (1761-1842), British army officer who invented such bombs]
small pieces of metal from a bomb, bullet etc that are scattered when it explodes:
a soldier with shrapnel wounds in his chest [TahlilGaran] Dictionary of Contemporary English ▲