candlebomb
English edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
candlebomb (plural candlebombs)
- A small glass bubble, filled with water, which, if placed in the flame of a candle, bursts by expansion of steam.
- A pasteboard shell used in signaling, filled with a substance which makes a brilliant light when it explodes.
- 1879, Albert James Myer, A Manual of Signals:
- sounds of guns , trumpets , bells , drums , steam - blasts , whistles , flights of rockets , explosions of candlebombs, etc.
References edit
- “candlebomb”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.