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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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"Bomb" Quotes from Famous Books

... our history. Now, the President not only has to carry on these tasks in such a way that our democracy may grow and flourish and our people prosper, but he also has to lead the whole free world in overcoming the communist menace—and all this under the shadow of the atomic bomb. ...

— State of the Union Addresses of Harry S. Truman • Harry S. Truman

... through heart and head, And there's no choice but to die, The last word I'll hear, no doubt, Won't be "Charge!" or "Bomb them out!" Nor the stretcher-bearer's cry, "Let that body be, he's dead!" But a voice cruel and flat Saying for ever, "Cat!... ...

— Fairies and Fusiliers • Robert Graves

... no natural obstacle to an escape. It was surrounded by a broad moat, fed by a cut from the river. On the other side of the moat were two small redoubts, facing west. The fort contained ample barracks for the garrison of three hundred men who occupied it, with bomb proofs in which they could take refuge, in the event of a siege. Beyond the moat, a glacis sloped down ...

— With Frederick the Great - A Story of the Seven Years' War • G. A. Henty

... was taken, the adventurers were not to get away from the earth safely. Almost at the last minute, a crazy machinist, named Fred Axtell, who was refused work on the projectile, tried to blow it up with a bomb. He partly succeeded, but the damage was repaired, and ...

— Lost on the Moon - or In Quest Of The Field of Diamonds • Roy Rockwood

... vivacious that we had small chance to examine the surroundings as we would have liked to. But save for the typewriter on the desk and a few books in a rack, there was nothing to suggest literature. "Plutarch's Lives," we noticed—a favourite of Mac's since boyhood; Frank Harris's "The Bomb" (which, however, the Chief insisted belonged to him), E.S. Martin's "Windfalls of Observation," and some engineering works. We envied Mac the little reading lamp at the head ...

— Plum Pudding - Of Divers Ingredients, Discreetly Blended & Seasoned • Christopher Morley

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