Crossword clues for bombard
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bombard \Bom"bard\, n. [F. bombarde, LL. bombarda, fr. L. bombus + -ard. Cf. Bumper, and see Bomb.]
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(Gun.) A piece of heavy ordnance formerly used for throwing stones and other ponderous missiles. It was the earliest kind of cannon.
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.
--Knolles. A bombardment. [Poetic & R.]
--J. Barlow.-
A large drinking vessel or can, or a leather bottle, for carrying liquor or beer. [Obs.]
Yond same black cloud, yond huge one, looks like a foul bombard that would shed his liquor.
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pl. Padded breeches. [Obs.]
Bombard phrase, inflated language; bombast. [Obs.]
--B. Jonson.
Bombard \Bom"bard\, n. [OE. bombarde, fr. F. bombarde.] (Mus.) See Bombardo. [Obs.]
Bombard \Bom*bard"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Bombarded; p. pr. & vb. n. Bombarding.] To attack with bombards or with artillery; especially, to throw shells, hot shot, etc., at or into.
Next, she means to bombard Naples.
--Burke.
His fleet bombarded and burnt down Dieppe.
--Wood.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 15c., "catapult, military engine for throwing large stones," from Middle French bombarde "mortar, catapult" (14c.), from bombe (see bomb (n.)). The same word, from the same source, was used in English and French late 14c. in reference to the bass shawm, a bassoon-like musical instrument, preserving the "buzzing" sense in the Latin.
1590s, from French bombarder, from bombarde "mortar, catapult" (see bombard (n.)). Figurative sense by 1765. Related: Bombarded; bombarding.
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. 1 a medieval primitive cannon, used chiefly in sieges for throwing heavy stone balls. 2 (context obsolete English) a bassoon-like medieval instrument 3 (context obsolete English) a large liquor container made of leather, in the form of a jug or a bottle. 4 (context poetic rare English) A bombardment. 5 (context music English) A bombardon. Etymology 2
vb. 1 To attack something with bombs, artillery shells or other missiles or projectiles. 2 (context figuratively English) To attack something or someone by directing objects at them. 3 (context physics English) To direct at a substance an intense stream of high-energy particles, usually sub-atomic or made of at most a few atoms.
WordNet
n. a large shawm; the bass member of the shawm family [syn: bombardon]
Wikipedia
Bombard may refer to the act of carrying out a bombardment. It may also refer to:
The bombard (, ) is a contemporary conical-bore double-reed instrument widely used to play traditional Breton music. The bombard is a woodwind instrument, and a member of the shawm family. Like most shawms, it has a broad and very powerful sound, vaguely resembling a trumpet. It is played as other shawms are played, with the double reed placed between the lips. The second octave is 'over-blown'; achieved via increased lip and air pressure or through the use of an octave key. It plays a diatonic scale of up to two octaves, although contemporary instruments frequently have added keywork permitting some degree of chromaticism. A bombard player is known as a talabarder after 'talabard', the older Breton name for the bombard.
The bombard is a cannon or mortar used in medieval times. It was a large caliber, muzzle-loading artillery piece mainly used during sieges to throw stone balls at opponents’ walls. The primary use was to break down the walls of the enemy so the army could get to them. Most bombards were made of iron and used gunpowder to launch the projectile through the air. There are many examples of bombards, including Mons Meg, the Dardanelles Gun, and the handheld bombard. Larger bombards are sometimes included in the family of superguns. They were used throughout the Middle Ages and the early modern period.
The weapon provided the name to the Royal Artillery rank of Bombardier and the word bombardment.
Usage examples of "bombard".
But the point is that its heavy elements have been bombarded, and most of its uranium has gone over to plutonium and americium and curium.
His nostrils filled with the ammoniac stench of the pigs, his ears bombarded with their squealing.
The Krath army used about one arquebus for every ten soldiers, and between those, the Marines on the right, the Diaspran infantry on the left, and the occasional bombard firing from either side, the fields were covered in a veritable smokescreen.
He had been bombarding Chatillon, he said, and he supposed he should soon receive orders to recommence.
Oldendorf, who commanded the gunfire support ships, then steamed boldly into the Gulf and commenced bombarding the landing beaches to cover operations of the UDTs.
At noon 6 January, when battleship New Mexico was bombarding the shore, she was crashed on the port wing of her navigating bridge by a Japanese plane already in flames.
Attacks from enemy bases to the eastward, particularly from Havre, were warded off, and in the west an Allied naval bombarding squadron co-operated later with the American Army in the capture of Cherbourg.
We were five hours sailing before we reached the line of battleships bombarding at about fifteen thousand yards.
On the west coast British, American, and French forces were continually in action, bombarding and harassing the enemy, driving off persistent attacks by light craft and midget submarines, and clearing mines in the liberated ports.
We have great need to sustain our bombarding fleet, which may have to deal with Cherbourg, and will certainly be required for the flanks of the liberating armies.
Rather than devise a model of the atom based on theoretical ideas as Thomson had done, Rutherford intended to probe atomic structure by bombarding atoms with particles ejected from radioactive atoms.
At Minami the TBMs worked for twenty minutes with cruisers and destroyers which were bombarding the island installations, dropping flares and spotting the fall of shot for the ships.
But the vicious sword took that fear and transformed it, bombarding poor Delly with images of her child being massacred by those same orcs, turning her terror into red rage so completely that she was soon running headlong for the camp.
Quong held forth about half an hour on the value of proper nutrition, bombarding Harry with a barrage of references to folic acid, antioxidants, glycomates, zinc, and beta-carotene.
Moving with the unpredictable winds of solar radiation bombarding the gasses from all sides, the giant appeared over time to be swaying back and forth, up and down, as if in some sort of galactic dance, where time and space were partnered in an ever changing rhythm.