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Webster 1913 Edition
Bombard
1.
(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. Knolles.
2.
A bombardment.
[Poetic & R.]
J. Barlow.
3.
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. Shakespeare
4.
pl.
Padded breeches.
[Obs.]
Bombard phrase
, inflated language; bombast.
[Obs.]
B. Jonson.
Bom-bard′
,Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Bombarded
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Bombarding
.] To attack with bombards or with artillery; especially, to throw shells, hot shot, etc., at or into.
Next, she means to
bombard
Naples. Burke.
His fleet
bombarded
and burnt down Dieppe. Wood.
Webster 1828 Edition
Bombard
BOM'BARD
,Noun.
1.
A piece of short thick ordnance with a large mouth, formerly used; some of them carrying a ball of three hundred pounds weight. It is called also basilisk, and by the Dutch, donderbuss, thunder-gun. But the thing and the name are no longer in use.2.
An attack with bombs; bombardment.3.
A barrel; a drinking vessel.