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noun

Bombard n.

(Gun.) A piece of heavy ordnance formerly used for throwing stones and other ponderous missiles. It was the earliest kind of cannon. "They planted in divers places twelve great bombards, wherewith they threw huge stones into the air, which, falling down into the city, might break down the houses."

A bombardment. (Poetic & R.)

A large drinking vessel or can, or a leather bottle, for carrying liquor or beer. (Obs.) "Yond same black cloud, yond huge one, looks like a foul bombard that would shed his liquor."

pl. Padded breeches. (Obs.)

Bombard phrase, inflated language; bombast. (Obs.)

Bombard n. (Mus.) See Bombardo. (Obs.)

verb

Bombard v. t. (past & past part. bombarded; pres. part. bombarding) To attack with bombards or with artillery; especially, to throw shells, hot shot, etc., at or into. "Next, she means to bombard Naples." "His fleet bombarded and burnt down Dieppe."

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"Bombard" Quotes from Famous Books

... gaze up at him in his high seat as he gloved himself with lingering deliberation, while some happy hostler held the bunch of reins aloft and waited patiently for him to take it! And how they would bombard him with glorifying ejaculations as he cracked his long whip 5 and went ...

— Story Hour Readings: Seventh Year • E.C. Hartwell

... needlessly to bombard Fort Sumter, if Major Anderson will state the time at which, as indicated by him, he will evacuate, and agree that, in the mean time, he will not use his guns against us, unless ours should be employed against Fort Sumter. You are thus to ...

— The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government • Jefferson Davis

... same time the enemy was preparing to bombard, and was busily engaged in {p.141} taking possession, by small bodies of from 100 to 250 men, of the undefended towns and villages in Griqualand West—the thinly peopled district to the west of Kimberley. This pleasant but useless pastime occupied them agreeably, ...

— Story of the War in South Africa - 1899-1900 • Alfred T. Mahan

... ever mitigated the barbarism of Jena, could become utterly lost to all recollection of father and mother, brother and sister, could forget their own manhood, could steal under cover of night to the house of an unpopular professor and bombard the windows, to the peril of his wife and mother, and of his child ...

— Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, April, 1876. • Various

... to Tacubaya, and found it impossible to procure a room there, far less a house. This is also the case at Guadalupe, San Joaquin, in fact in every village near Mexico. We are in no particular danger, unless they were to bombard the palace. There was a slight shock ...

— Life in Mexico • Frances Calderon de la Barca

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