Bomb , v. i. [Cf. Boom.]
To sound; to boom; to make a humming or buzzing sound. [Obs.] B.
Jonson.
Bomb , v. t. To bombard. [Obs.]
Prior.
Bomb (&?;), n. [F. bombe bombshell, fr.
L. bombus a humming or buzzing noise, Gr. &?;.]
1.
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.
Bacon.
2.
(Mil.) A shell; esp.
a spherical shell, like those fired from mortars. See Shell.
3. 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."
Darwin.
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