A homemade incendiary device made from a candle and flammable materials; a crude fire-starting contraption.
Compound: candle (Latin candela) + bomb (from Spanish bomba, from Italian bomba). This is a colloquial or informal term, sometimes appearing in survival or historical military contexts.
During wartime, people have improvised firebombs using basic materials, and candlebombs (using a candle as a slow-burning timer) appear in both military history and spy thrillers as a simple delayed-ignition device!
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