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infernal machine

noun

infernal machine

First recorded in 1800–10

A new Fieschi had deposited an infernal machine there with the result that one poor woman was injured.

An infernal machine, such as has before been described, was blown up at the pierhead.

The infernal machine had been rendered harmless, but was kept intact as evidence.

A box containing an "infernal machine" was sent as freight on a packet ship bound for New York.

But of late they had had unheard-of enemies to meet, the submarine and the infernal machine placed inside the cargo.

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