HyperDic: marine_mine

English > 1 sense of the expression marine mine:
NOUNartifactmarine mine, floating minean explosive mine designed to destroy ships that bump into it
English > marine mine: 1 sense > noun 1, artifact
MeaningAn explosive mine designed to destroy ships that bump into it.
Synonymfloating mine
Narrowermagnetic mine(nautical) a marine mine that is detonated by a mechanism that responds to magnetic material (as the steel hull of a ship)
Broadermineexplosive device that explodes / explodes on contact

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