BOM'BARD, noun [bomb and ard, kind.] 1. A piece of short thick ordnance with a large mouth, formerly used; some of them carrying a ball of three hundred pounds weight. It is called also basilisk, and by the Dutch, donderbuss, thunder-gun. But the thing and the name are no longer in use. 2. An attack with bombs; bombardment. 3. A barrel; a drinking vessel. BOMB'ARD, verb transitive To attack with bombs thrown from mortars.
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