THE Grenado is a kind of little bomb, of the ƒame diameter as a four-pound bullet, it weighs about two pounds, and is charged with four or five ounces of powder.
        Grenadoes are thrown by the hand of the ƒoldiers, called from hence Grenadiers; they have a touch-hole in the ƒame manner as a bomb, and a fuƒe of the fame compoƒition. The ƒoldier fires the fuƒe with a match, and throws the grenado as he is directed; the powder in the grenado taking fire, bursts it into ƒplinters, which kill or maim whomƒoever they reach; a ƒoldier can ƒcarce throw a grenado further than 15 or 16 fathom at moƒt.
        There are other grenadoes, which are not thrown (from the hand) but rolled into ditches, trenches, or other places where it is expedient to make uƒe of them; theƒe are properly a ƒort of bomb, and are from 6 to 3 inches diameter.