daisy cutter

[Nicolas Ward]

On 9/1/07, lindafowens at netzero.net <lindafowens at netzero.net> wrote:
> In my Webster's 2nd Ed. 1978, 1) in baseball and cricket, a batted ball
> which skims along the ground [slang]  2) a horse that trots with only
> slightly raised feet.  From Elliott, 3) some kind of big conventionalk bomb;
> was in the news during the Afghan War.  From Hutch  4) a baseball term,
> similar to a "frozen rope" . A batted ball that goes low along the ground
> (thus cutting the flowers.) 5) from Nicolas: very large bomb used to clear
> out a helicopter landing pad in the Vieetnam jungle.

Russia just tested a new "daisy cutter", or thermobaric bomb:
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/09/12/2031149.htm

--Nick

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