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noun

Bombard n.

(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."

A bombardment. (Poetic & R.)

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."

pl. Padded breeches. (Obs.)

Bombard phrase, inflated language; bombast. (Obs.)

Bombard n. (Mus.) See Bombardo. (Obs.)

verb

Bombard v. t. (past & past part. bombarded; pres. part. bombarding) To attack with bombards or with artillery; especially, to throw shells, hot shot, etc., at or into. "Next, she means to bombard Naples." "His fleet bombarded and burnt down Dieppe."

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"Bombard" Quotes from Famous Books

... majesty deign to hear me. Sire! break not in thunder over so small a thing as myself. God's great lightning doth not bombard a lettuce. Sire, you are an august and, very puissant monarch; have pity on a poor man who is honest, and who would find it more difficult to stir up a revolt than a cake of ice would to give out a spark! Very ...

— Notre-Dame de Paris - The Hunchback of Notre Dame • Victor Hugo

... no one to hear, since we are alone upon the rampart, nor can it do scathe, since it points to sea. I pray you to loose it and I will listen to the sound." He bent over the bombard with an attentive ear, while Aylward, stooping his earnest brown face over the touch-hole, scraped away diligently with a flint and steel. A moment later both he and Nigel were seated some distance off ...

— Sir Nigel • Arthur Conan Doyle

... the Republic for capture and for subsequent guillotine. England is at war with us, there is nothing therefore further to fear from her. We might hang every Englishman we can lay hands on, and England could do no more than she is doing at the present moment: bombard our ports, bluster and threaten, join hands with Flanders, and Austria and Sardinia, and ...

— The Elusive Pimpernel • Baroness Emmuska Orczy

... we neared Daiquiri, the designated place for disembarking, flames could be seen reaching almost to the heavens, the town having been fired by the fleeing Spaniards upon the approach of war vessels of Sampson's fleet, who were assembling to bombard the shore and cover our landing. After a fierce fire from these ships, the landing was effected with loss of two men of our regiment, who were doubtless crushed to death between the lighters. They were buried near the place ...

— The Colored Regulars in the United States Army • T. G. Steward

... Tour loaded his cannon, locked the fort gates, and bade defiance to Charnisay. Charnisay sails across Fundy Bay in June, 1643, with a fleet of four vessels and five hundred men to bombard the fort. La Tour was without provisions, though his store ship from France lay in hiding outside, blocked from entering by Charnisay's fleet. Days passed. Resistance was hopeless. On one side lay the impenetrable forest; on the other, Charnisay's fleet. On the night ...

— Canada: the Empire of the North - Being the Romantic Story of the New Dominion's Growth from Colony to Kingdom • Agnes C. Laut

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