infernal machine

名词 n.
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英文释义

名词 n.
  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. 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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infernal machines plural
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