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Hand mortar

The hand mortar is a firearm and early predecessor of modern grenade launchers that was used in the late 17th century and 18th century to throw fused grenades. The action was similar to a flintlock, matchlock, or wheellock firearm (depending on the date of production), but the barrel was short, usually 2 inches (5.1 cm) to 4 inches (10 cm) long (though…

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Action
flintlock, matchlock, or wheellock
Shell
Incendiary, Explosive
Type
Firearm

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Hand mortar

Nodes25
Edges24
Triples62
Avg. degree1.92
Density0.08
Components1

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Hand mortar

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related to Ammunition · 20
Hand mortar → An, Art, City, Count, Europe, Explosive, France, Francis, Gunnery, However, Issoire, Master Gunner, Nathanael Nye, Randan, Rouen, Siege, The, Valturius, While, Worcester
related to Production · 14
Hand mortar → Additionally, Artillery, Berlin, Between, Fondeur, France, Great Britain, Handmörser, Königliches Gießhaus, Museum, Royal Foundry, Strasbourg, Woolwich, Württemberg
related to Naval usage · 8
Hand mortar → In, It, Life-boats, Manby, Other Means, Projectiles, Saving Life, The
related to Usage · 8
Hand mortar → Additional, After, Calcutta International Exhibition, Hewitt, However, In, The, The Official Report
related to Inventors · 7
Hand mortar → Ancient Armour, Another, At, Dutch, However, John Tinker, Menno Van Coehoorn
Action · 1
Hand mortar → flintlock, matchlock, or wheellock
Designer · 1
Hand mortar → .mw-parser-output .plainlist ol,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul{line-height:inherit;list-style:none;margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol li,.mw-parser-output .plai…
Shell · 1
Hand mortar → Incendiary, Explosive
Type · 1
Hand mortar → Firearm
is a · 1
Hand mortar → firearm and early predecessor of modern grenade launchers that was used in the late 17th century and 18th century to throw fused grenades

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hand mortar grenade firearm however century type grenades flintlock matchlock wheellock work titled used references production incendiary explosive action occur

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Hand mortarActionflintlock, matchlock, or wheellock1.00infobox
Hand mortarDesigner.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul{line-height:inherit;list-style:none;margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol li,.mw-parser-output .plai…1.00infobox
Hand mortarShellIncendiary, Explosive1.00infobox
Hand mortarTypeFirearm1.00infobox
Hand mortaris afirearm and early predecessor of modern grenade launchers that was used in the late 17th century and 18th century to throw fused grenades0.90text
Hand mortarrelated to AmmunitionThe0.60section
Hand mortarrelated to AmmunitionValturius0.60section
Hand mortarrelated to AmmunitionHowever0.60section
Hand mortarrelated to AmmunitionFrancis0.60section
Hand mortarrelated to AmmunitionFrance0.60section
Hand mortarrelated to AmmunitionAn0.60section
Hand mortarrelated to AmmunitionCount0.60section

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