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infernal machine

noun

  1. a concealed or disguised explosive device intended to destroy life or property.


infernal machine

noun

  1. archaic.
    a usually disguised explosive device or booby trap
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Origin of infernal machine1

First recorded in 1800–10
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While Marvel can seem “like this infernal machine that grinds on,” Bettany says, the projects are, in his experience, “incredibly collaborative.”

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The infernal machine will continue largely unstopped because there is a huge market for its poison.

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District Court Judge Roger T. Benitez included dueling pistols, muskets, trick “cane guns” and a custom-made instrument of mass murder known as “the infernal machine.”

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The brilliant “elephant,” lumbering and impressive like its African namesake, is an infernal machine.

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