aerial mine

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noun

Military. a mine designed to be dropped from the air into water.

a bomb or land mine designed to be dropped by parachute.

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Origin of aerial mine

First recorded in 1905–10

Words nearby aerial mine

Aeria, aerial, aerialist, aeriality, aerial ladder, aerial mine, aerial perspective, aerial photograph, aerial pingpong, aerial root, aerial survey

How to use aerial mine in a sentence

There was a lot of prison fiction from movies and books to mine.
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What the people of Mosul now fear most is aerial bombardment of their own city.
Has the Kurdish Victory at Sinjar Turned the Tide of ISIS War?|Niqash|December 27, 2014|DAILY BEAST
I gave a reading last week with someone who had taken a class of mine.
Daphne Merkin on Lena Dunham, Book Criticism, and Self-Examination|Mindy Farabee|December 26, 2014|DAILY BEAST
I wanted to be anonymous, as some of these people were friends of mine.
I Was Gang Raped at a UVA Frat 30 Years Ago, and No One Did Anything|Liz Seccuro|December 16, 2014|DAILY BEAST

It reminds me of an uncle of mine who said the London Blitz was irritating.
Why Can’t Movies Capture Genius?|Clive Irving|December 14, 2014|DAILY BEAST
We know one thing—the men that killed Rutter are the ones that held us up, and got off with that money of mine.
Raw Gold|Bertrand W. Sinclair
And it is small consolation to me to note that most people's minds seem to be no better done than mine.
The Salvaging Of Civilisation|H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
When a besieged city suspects a mine, do not the inhabitants dig underground, and meet their enemy at his work?
The Pastor's Fire-side Vol. 3 of 4|Jane Porter
The second cable quotes mine of last night wherein I ask leave to call for the East Lancs.
Gallipoli Diary, Volume I|Ian Hamilton
And hence the reader can notice the fundamental difference between all other methods and mine.
Assimilative Memory|Marcus Dwight Larrowe (AKA Prof. A. Loisette)