semantic shift: "shrapnel"

[Dan Goncharoff]

Interestingly, the metal detector crowd has been heading down to the
"virgin sand" on the Jersey Shore, looking for unburied treasure.

DanG

On Thursday, November 1, 2012, Joel S. Berson wrote:

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> At 11/1/2012 12:40 PM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
> >CNN reports that the sand forced by the storm into New Jersey
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> >"can't simply be dumped back on the beach, because there's nails and
> >shrapnel in there."
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> Maybe from German Uboat shelling off the Jersey shore during WW II?
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> (Please put this down to the flakiness of my internet connection today.)
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> Joel
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