flare shell

Coloured flare shells have also been used for target marking purposes.

He went all the way to the end of the pier, then sent a flare shell whizzing skyward.

Bolan fired his last flare shell from the mortar.

Incendiary and coloured flare shells were developed but not introduced into service, and smoke shells were sometimes reloaded with propaganda leaflets or metal foil "window".

Seconds later the flare shell opened in the sky directly above the Frenchi mansion and floated gently groundward in startling brilliance, lighting the area like a personal sun.

An oyster's mature shape often depends on the type of bottom to which it is originally attached, but it always orients itself with its outer, flared shell tilted upward.

Besides the flesh-shredding HE- high explosive-shells, Bolan had flare shells and one William Peter, a WP, white phosphorous, for marking.

He seized a heavy metal lawn chair and heaved it through a darkened ground-floor window, diving in immediately in its wake, just as the flare shell popped into brilliance high upwind.

The Type 10 grenade was quickly superseded in front-line combat service by the Type 91 grenade, and survived into the Second Sino-Japanese War and World War II in primarily in the form of flare shells and signal shells.