toffee apple
nounEtymology The weapon is named after the food item, having a similar shape, i.e. a sphere with attached stick or handle.
1
Commonwealth, Ireland, UK A candy apple.
- Toffee apples and fairy floss are often sold as fairground snacks.
2
Ireland, UK, Historical, Slang A kind of British trench mortar used in World War I.
- Here we would find, perhaps, three 18-pounder guns dug in as antitank defences supplemented by 60 lb "toffee apple" trench mortar bombs buried as makeshift anti-tank mines.2014, Richard Baber, The SOTCW World War I Compendium: