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A sighting device in an aircraft for aiming bombs
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bombsight
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a sighting device in an aircraft for aiming bombs
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A device which allows bombs to be accurately dropped from moving aircraft so as to hit a desired target.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A bombsight is a device used by military aircraft to accurately drop bombs . Bombsights are a feature of combat aircraft from World War I on, first found on purpose-designed bomber aircraft , and then moving to fighter-bombers and modern tactical aircraft ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
bombsight \bombsight\ n. 1. a sighting device in an aircraft for aiming bombs.
Usage examples of bombsight.
Sitting there with his knees bracketing the bombsight January dozed, and as he dozed he daydreamed his way out.
The bombsight rose before him, spearing the black sky and blocking some of the hundreds of little cruciform stars.
January leaned forward and put his face in the cool headrest of the bombsight, hoping that its grasp might hold his thoughts as well as his forehead.
January shouted, shielding the bombsight with his body from the eyes of the pilots.
Fitch gave him altimeter readings to dial into the bombsight, Matthews gave him windspeeds.
Already he hung over the bombsight like a drowning man over a life preserver, wiping his eyes with his sleeves while staring down into the aiming viewer.
The group had missed the bridge at Ferrara again for the seventh straight day with the bombsight that could put bombs into a pickle barrel at forty thousand feet, and one whole week had already passed since Colonel Cathcart had volunteered to have his men destroy the bridge in twenty-four hours.
There was nothing he could do until his bombs dropped but look back into the bombsight, where the fine cross-hairs in the lens were glued magnetically over the target exactly where he had placed them, intersecting perfectly deep inside the yard of his block of camouflaged warehouses before the base of the first building.
At last the indices on the bombsight crossed, tripping away the eight 500-pounders one after the other.
Yossarian bent away from the bombsight crookedly to watch the indicator on his left.
He lunged forward over the bombsight to search downward through the plexiglass for some reassuring sign of Orr, who drew flak like a magnet and who had undoubtedly attracted the crack batteries of the whole Hermann Goering Division to Bologna overnight from wherever the hell they had been stationed the day before when Orr was still in Rome.
Bologna straight and level with my head in the bombsight and listen to all that flak pumping away all around me.
He was working from radar reports alone with no fancy computing bombsight to think for him.
Well, I was stretched out over the Norden bombsight and I steadied myself and took my time.
High, cruising over Berlin in your trusty B-52, looking through your Norden bombsight and waiting for just the right moment to push the button.