infernal machine
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infernal machine
noun infernal machines
- A bespoke machine comprising a large bomb and an unmanned vessel or carriage carrying it to a target 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.
- A booby-trap or improvised explosive device 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
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