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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

... overwhelming—too much like a bomb. I think you must be one of the supermen one reads about. You would want your own way and nothing but your own way. Now, Freddie will roll through hoops and sham dead, and we shall be the happiest pair in the world. I am much too placid and mild to make you happy. You want somebody who ...

— Something New • Pelham Grenville Wodehouse

... I had the honour to write you from Messina, under date of the 5th of July; I then expected to have sailed the day following, but was detained, by bad weather, until the 9th, when I left it, with two small bomb vessels under convoy, and arrived at Syracuse, where we were necessarily detained four days. On the 14th I sailed, the schooners Nautilus and Enterprize in company, with six gun boats and two bomb vessels, generously loaned us by His Sicilian Majesty. The bomb vessels are about thirty ...

— The Medallic History of the United States of America 1776-1876 • J. F. Loubat

... sorts of hands, and sometimes was not made at all. Matters went on so far, indeed, that the King at last grew angry, and threatened to make Madame de Bourgogne herself take this office. But refusals still followed upon refusals, and the bomb thus at length was ready ...

— The Memoirs of Louis XIV., His Court and The Regency, Complete • Duc de Saint-Simon

... cases remained. Koa ripped the side from one and let out an exclamation. Rip hurried over and looked in. His stomach did a quick orbital reverse. Great Cosmos! The thing was an atomic bomb! ...

— Rip Foster Rides the Gray Planet • Blake Savage

... that all blueskins should be exterminated as a pious act. They'd appeared on every visionscreen, citing not only the ship from Orede but other incidents which they interpreted as crimes against Weald. They demanded that all Wealdian atomic reactors be modified to turn out fusion-bomb materials while a space-fleet was made ready for an anti-blueskin crusade. They confidently demanded such a rain of fusion-bombs on Dara that no blueskin, no animal, no shred of vegetation, no fish in the deepest ocean, not even a living virus-particle of the ...

— Pariah Planet • Murray Leinster

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