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noun

Bomb n.

A great noise; a hollow sound. (Obs.) "A pillar of iron... which if you had struck, would make... a great bomb in the chamber beneath."

(Mil.) A shell; esp. a spherical shell, like those fired from mortars. See Shell.

A bomb ketch.

Bomb chest (Mil.), a chest filled with bombs, or only with gunpowder, placed under ground, to cause destruction by its explosion.

Bomb ketch, Bomb vessel (Naut.), 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."

verb

Bomb v. t. To bombard. (Obs.)

Bomb v. i. To sound; to boom; to make a humming or buzzing sound. (Obs.)

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Etymology of 'Bomb'

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"Bomb" Quotes from Famous Books

... everybody in the shebang except Arthur Wye was all torn to pieces. Tommy Atherton, too; you knew him, of course—5th Zouaves. He happened in—just visiting Arthur Wye. They were all playing cards in a half finished bomb-proof. . . . Mother, you will write to Camilla, won't you, dear? Good-bye—good-bye, Phil—and Miss Lynden!" He caught his mother in his arms for a last hug, wrenched himself free, and ran back across the hall, ...

— Ailsa Paige • Robert W. Chambers

... "A small bomb," said Malcolm. "It is an old trick of airmen when they are searching woods for concealed bodies of infantry. Somebody is bound to run out and ...

— The Book of All-Power • Edgar Wallace

... a curious chap! Here you come dropping down like a bomb a fortnight ago, introducing yourself as a Swedish-American who is collecting flies for ...

— Plays by August Strindberg, Second series • August Strindberg

... bomb-scorched kilt, poor sprawling Jock, You tottered here and fell, and stumbled on, Half dazed for want of sleep. No dream could mock Your reeling brain with comforts lost and gone. You did not feel her arms about your knees, Her blind caress, her ...

— The War Poems of Siegfried Sassoon • Siegfried Sassoon

... He caught another glimpse of the Taube rushing away like a huge carnivorous bird that had already seized its prey, and then he ran swiftly down the street. The bomb had burst in a swarm of fugitives and a woman was killed. Several people were wounded, and a panic had threatened, but the soldiers had restored order already and ambulances soon ...

— The Forest of Swords - A Story of Paris and the Marne • Joseph A. Altsheler

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