fléchette
[ fley-shet ]
/ fleɪˈʃɛt /
noun, plural flé·chettes [fley-shets; French fley-shet] /fleɪˈʃɛts; French fleɪˈʃɛt/.
Military.
a small, dartlike metal projectile used as shrapnel in antipersonnel bombs and shells.
a bullet with a thin, hard metal spine, designed to tumble on impact and thus cause an incapacitating wound.
Words nearby fléchette
flywhisk,
flânerie,
flâneur,
flèche,
flèches d'amour,
fléchette,
flémalle,
flügelhorn,
fm,
fm cyclotron,
fm.
British Dictionary definitions for flechette
fléchette
/ (fleɪˈʃɛt) /
noun
a steel dart or missile dropped from an aircraft, as in World War I
Word Origin for fléchette
from French; see
flèche