, is a hollow cafe formed of ribs of iron, and covered over with pitched cloth &c, about the size of bomb-shells; or sometimes made all of iron except two or three holes for the fire to blaze through. These are filled with various matters and combustibles, to five houses, when thrown out of mortar pieces into besieged places.
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Entry taken from A Mathematical and Philosophical Dictionary, by Charles Hutton, 1796.
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