bombard
see also: Bombard
Pronunciation
Bombard
Proper noun
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see also: Bombard
Pronunciation
- Verb:
- Noun:
bombard (plural bombards)
- a medieval primitive cannon, used chiefly in sieges for throwing heavy stone balls.
- 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.
- (obsolete) a bassoon-like medieval instrument
- (obsolete) a large liquor container made of leather, in the form of a jug or a bottle.
- 1610, The Tempest, by Shakespeare, act 2 scene 2
- […] yond same black cloud, yond huge one, / looks like a foul bombard that would shed his liquor.
- 1610, The Tempest, by Shakespeare, act 2 scene 2
- (poetic, rare) A bombardment.
- (music) A bombardon.
- French: bombarde
- German: Bombarde, Donnerbüchse
- Portuguese: bombarda
- Russian: бомба́рда
- Spanish: bombarda
bombard (bombards, present participle bombarding; past and past participle bombarded)
- To attack something with bombs, artillery shells or other missiles or projectiles.
- (figuratively) To attack something or someone by directing objects at them.
- (physics) To direct at a substance an intense stream of high-energy particles, usually sub-atomic or made of at most a few atoms.
- French: bombarder
- German: bombardieren
- Portuguese: bombardear
- Russian: бомбарди́ровать
- Spanish: bombardear
- French: bombarder
- German: bombardieren
- Portuguese: bombardear
- Russian: бомбарди́ровать
- Spanish: bombardear
- French: bombarder
- German: bombardieren
- Portuguese: bombardear
- Russian: бомбарди́ровать
- Spanish: bombardear
Bombard
Proper noun
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