bangalore torpedo in English

noun
1
a tube containing explosives used by infantry for blowing up barriers.
Lt. Dillon put three Bangalore torpedoes together and blew a hole big enough to drive a truck through.

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1. The bangalore torpedo may be primed by assembling Alength of time blasting fuse and a nonelectric blasting cap in a priming adapter and screwing the assembly into the cap well of a torpedo section (A, fig 2-31)