What is to make a loud, heavy, or hollow noise, as the bittern; to boom. As a bittern bumps within a reed. Dryden called?
bump — To make a loud, heavy, or hollow noise, as the bittern; to boom. As a bittern bumps within a reed. Dryden. (Webster's 1913.)
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- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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