Bomb
Bomb ({not transcribed}) , noun
[French bombe bombshell, from Latin bombus a humming or buzzing noise, Greek {not transcribed}.]
1.
A great noise; a hollow sound. [Obsolete]
A pillar of iron... which if you had struck, would make... a great bomb in the chamber beneath.
2.
(Military) A shell; esp. a spherical shell, like those fired from mortars. See Shell.
3.
A bomb ketch.
Collocations (4)
Bomb chest (Military) , a chest filled with bombs, or only with gunpowder, placed under ground, to cause destruction by its explosion.
Bomb ketch or Bomb vessel (Nautical) , a small ketch or vessel, very strongly built, on which mortars are mounted to be used in naval bombardments; -- called also mortar vessel.
Bomb lance , a lance or harpoon with an explosive head, used in whale fishing.
Volcanic bomb , a mass of lava of a spherical or pear shape. I noticed volcanic bombs.
Bomb , transitive verb
To bombard. [Obsolete] — Prior
Bomb , intransitive verb
[Compare Boom.]
To sound; to boom; to make a humming or buzzing sound. [Obsolete] — B. Jonson