- an explosive device formerly used in warfare to blow in a door or gate, form a breach in a wall, etc.
- a kind of firecracker.
- a British spigot mortar of World War II that fired a 40-pound (18-kilogram) finned bomb, designed to destroy pillboxes and other concrete obstacles.
- hurt, ruined, or destroyed by the very device or plot one had intended for another.
- (formerly) a device containing explosives used to breach a wall, doors, etc
- being the victim of one's own schemes
- a type of explosive firework
