Helen Fenton

Bomb: Definition and part of speech

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Bomb

  1. v. i. To sound; to boom; to make a humming or buzzing sound.
  2. n. A great noise; a hollow sound.
  3. n. A shell; esp. a spherical shell, like those fired from mortars. See Shell.
  4. n. A bomb ketch.
  5. v. t. To bombard.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Bombard: Definition and part of speech

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Bombard

  1. n. See Bombardo.
  2. n. A piece of heavy ordnance formerly used for throwing stones and other ponderous missiles. It was the earliest kind of cannon.
  3. n. A bombardment.
  4. n. A large drinking vessel or can, or a leather bottle, for carrying liquor or beer.
  5. n. Padded breeches.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Bombardier: Definition and part of speech

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Bombardier

  1. n. A noncommissioned officer in the British artillery.
  2. n. One who used or managed a bombard; an artilleryman; a gunner.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.