INFERNAL MACHINE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does infernal machine mean? 

• INFERNAL MACHINE (noun)
  The noun INFERNAL MACHINE has 1 sense:

1. a bomb that has a detonating mechanism that can be set to go off at a particular time

  Familiarity information: INFERNAL MACHINE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INFERNAL MACHINE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A bomb that has a detonating mechanism that can be set to go off at a particular time

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

infernal machine; time bomb

Hypernyms ("infernal machine" is a kind of...):

bomb (an explosive device fused to explode under specific conditions)

 Context examples 

But, happily, there were limits to the strain which the rope would stand, though none apparently to the lifting powers of this infernal machine.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)