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What does "bomb" mean?

Bomb: (Mil.) A shell; esp. a spherical shell, like those fired from mortars. See Shell.

Additional senses

  1. 2.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.
  2. 3.To bombard. [Obs.] Prior.
  3. 4.To sound; to boom; to make a humming or buzzing sound. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

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