floating mine

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   an explosive mine designed to destroy ships that bump into it

   Synonymsmarine mine

   Broadermine

   Narrowermagnetic mine

Questions about floating mine

What does floating mine mean?

floating mine means "an explosive mine designed to destroy ships that bump into it".

What is another word for floating mine?

Close synonyms include marine mine. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is floating mine a common word?

floating mine is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.