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S-mine
Also S mine.
[Abbrev. and anglicization of G. schützenmine, lit. ‘infantryman mine’.]
Used, esp. in the war of 1939–45, to designate a variety of enemy anti-personnel mine.
1944J. H. Fullarton Troop Target 206 The enemy had sown elaborate mine fields—heavy Teller mines and deadly anti-personnel S mines. 1945[see anti-personnel s.v. anti-1 4 (iii)]. 1972Daily Tel. (Colour Suppl.) 1 Sept. 16/2 In the last war the Germans devised a series of anti-personnel devices, including the S-mine & the ‘butterfly-bomb’. 1977C. McCullough Thorn Birds xv. 351 Sometimes a man would step on an unexploded S-mine. |
