Word of the Day - daisy-cutter

daisy-cutter

noun
informal
1 British (in sport) a ball hit or bowled so as to roll along the ground.
2 An immensely powerful aerial bomb that derives its destructive power
from the mixture of ammonium nitrate and aluminum powder with air.

Origin
Late 18th century (in the sense ‘a horse that lifts its feet only slightly
from the ground’); the bomb is so named because it explodes just above
ground level.

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Bob, a commonplace American, was not entirely clear on the rules of either cricket or polo. He sort of understood that a daisy-cutter was a bit like a "grounder" in baseball, but felt that horses were somehow involved.