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infernal machine

noun

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  1. A bespoke machine comprising a large bomb and an unmanned vessel or carriage carrying it…

    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.
    • The vessel against which the infernal machine had been moored had been blown to atoms.

  2. A booby-trap or improvised explosive device

    • When a serious attempt was made upon Bonaparte's life by the explosion of an infernal machine, Fouché knew that the plot had been hatched and carried out by royalists […]

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