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Infernal machine

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Noun
  1. 1
    A bespoke machine comprising a large bomb and an unmanned vessel or carriage carrying it to a target dated

    "The Prince of Orange likewise had recourse to the destructive effects of an infernal machine, in order to bombard Havre-de-Grace, and to set it on fire."

  2. 2
    a bomb that has a detonating mechanism that can be set to go off at a particular time wordnet
  3. 3
    A booby-trap or improvised explosive device dated

    "The infernal machines employed generally consisted of a crude kind of hand grenade filled with gunpowder, and lit by means of a piece of ordinary fuze. The effect of these bombs appears, in most instances, to have been of a comparatively harmless character, doing very little damage to buildings, and fortunately unattended with loss of life."

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