"infernal machine" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1810, Charles James, “Machines, Infernal”, in A New and Enlarged Military Dictionary, in French and English, 3rd edition, volume I, London: T. Egerton:",
          "text": "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.",
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          "text": "The vessel against which the infernal machine had been moored had been blown to atoms.",
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        "A bespoke machine comprising a large bomb and an unmanned vessel or carriage carrying it to a target"
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          "text": "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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          "text": "When a serious attempt was made upon Bonaparte's life by the explosion of an infernal machine, Fouché knew that the plot had been hatched and carried out by royalists […]",
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        "A booby-trap or improvised explosive device"
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