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plural minenwerfers or minenwerfer
(military, now historical) A type of trench mortar used by German forces especially during the First World War, or the shells fired by such a mortar. quotations
Something landed outside that shook the earth. ‘Four hundred twenty or minnenwerfer,’ Gavuzzi said.
1929, Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms, Folio Society, published 2008, page 59