grenade thrower

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   an infantryman equipped with grenades

   Synonymsgrenadier

   Broaderinfantryman

Questions about grenade thrower

What does grenade thrower mean?

grenade thrower means "an infantryman equipped with grenades".

What is another word for grenade thrower?

Close synonyms include grenadier. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is grenade thrower a common word?

grenade thrower is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.