noun

firebomb

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Firebomb (noun) means a weapon made to start fires.

noun

A weapon made to start fires.

"As many as 100,000 Japanese people were killed and another million injured, most of them civilians, when more than 300 American B-29 bombers dropped 1,500 tons of firebombs on the Japanese capital that night." — Brad Lendon and Emiko Jozuka, History’s deadliest air raid happened in Tokyo during World War II and you’ve probably never heard of it (2020)

"The firebombs were small, and burst into flames when they hit the ground." — Jennifer Worth, Shadows of the Workhouse (2005)

"A Molotov cocktail is a simple firebomb."

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