rifle grenade

a grenade designed to be fired from a grenade launcher attached to the muzzle of a rifle or carbine.

Origin of rifle grenade

First recorded in 1910–15

Hitherto only the most expert and steadiest bombers had been employed on rifle-grenade work.

Q.6.a and Other places |Francis Buckley
I was lucky to have no accident with the Mills grenade, and no fatal ones even with the rifle-grenade.

Q.6.a and Other places |Francis Buckley
The 'fishtail' was a small trench-mortar bomb, which the Germans substituted for the rifle-grenade and used with great effect.

Q.6.a and Other places |Francis Buckley
Rifle-fire and rifle-grenade and hand-grenade explosions rolled together in one tremendous cacophony.

The Iron Division, National Guard of Pennsylvania, in the World War |H. G. Proctor

My own job was now to train as many infantry men as possible in the use of the rifle-grenade.

Q.6.a and Other places |Francis Buckley

rifle grenade

a grenade fired from a rifle