A small bomb made of a metal or wooden box filled with powder, used to blow in a door, gate, etc., or to make a hole in a wall. Now historical.

a mine (mine, n. 5) filled with gunpowder; also figurative.

= fougasse, n.; also figurative.

Military. A chest containing bombs or other explosives, to be buried and fired as a mine.

Military. globe of compression: an overcharged mine, the explosion of which produces a crater of greater radius than depth. Obsolete.

Military. A shell furnished with a percussion or friction device buried in the ground, which explodes when the ground is trodden upon; a petard. U.S.

‘A small mine from 6 to 12 feet under ground, charged either with powder or loaded shells’ (Voyle).

Military slang. = camouflet, n. 1.

An explosive mine laid on or just under the surface of the ground and which detonates when activated by a person, vehicle, etc., passing over or…

a mine detonated remotely by an observer (see quot. 1973).

A bomb, a mine. slang.