bomb crater

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English

The crater left by a Zeppelin bomb in Paris, 1917

Noun

bomb crater (plural bomb craters)

  1. A hole in the ground created by the explosion of a large bomb, usually one dropped by a bomber (aircraft).
    • 1943 September and October, “Notes and News: Locomotive in Bomb Crater”, in Railway Magazine, page 311, photo caption:
      Scene near Ingatestone, L.N.E.R., shortly after the locomotive of a London-Harwich train had fallen into a bomb crater.

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