QUIZ: Can You Guess What The WWI Trench Slang Means?

Caroline Gawlik|History|10 Apr 2019

Daisy-Cutter

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Retry Correct Incorrect Before the war, daisy-cutters were cricket balls that were thrown low along the surface of the ground. The slang term was picked up by troops to describe shells that waited to explode when they hit the ground to inflict maximum damage.
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Daisy-Cutter

  • A standard military rifle
  • An artillery shell that exploded on impact with the ground
  • An unstable bicycle
  • The sausages issues by the Army
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