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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'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... on both sides. And then it came down to who committed the first cruelty and just how should you rank them? Was intentional torture for the few any the worse than the dispassionate act of dropping a bomb that produced quite the same, if not ...

— Decision • Frank M. Robinson

... and long, and it echoed through the room and throughout the corridors. It sounded to Malone like the blast of a small bomb, or possibly a grenade. Startled himself by the volume of sound he had managed to ...

— Occasion for Disaster • Gordon Randall Garrett

... will eat you," says the old saw, but, like most other proverbs, it will not admit of universal application. There is a way of being honey that is thoroughly successful and extremely popular, and constitutes a kind of armour that is bomb-proof. ...

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— The Heart of the Desert - Kut-Le of the Desert • Honore Willsie Morrow

... flung into the quiet pool the bomb of her approaching wedding with one of the best "catches" of New South Wales, all other topics faded into insignificance, and every woman who had the slightest acquaintance with the bride-elect called on her to warn her against the horrors to be discovered after she ...

— Some Everyday Folk and Dawn • Miles Franklin

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