BOMB-Chest, is a kind of chest filled usually with bombs, sometimes only with gunpowder, placed under ground, to tear and blow it up in the air with those who stand on it. Bomb-chests were formerly much used to drive enemies from a post they had seized or
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Bombax. were about to take possession of: they were set on fire by means of a fauciflee fallen at one end, but they are now much difused.