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• Bombarded

  to attack or batter with artillery fire. to attack with bombs. to assail vigorously: to bombard the speaker with questions. Physics. to direct high energy particles or radiations against: to bombard a nucleus. the earliest kind of cannon, originally throwing stone balls. Nautical, bomb ketch. an English leather tankard of the 18th century and earlier, […]

• Bombardier

  Military. the member of a bombing plane crew who operates the bombsight and bomb-release mechanism. History/Historical, artilleryman. a snowmobilelike vehicle driven by an internal-combustion engine, equipped with caterpillar tracks at the rear, steered by skis at the front, and designed for travel over snow. Contemporary Examples The Catch in “Catch-22” Morris Dickstein September 3, 2011 […]

• Bombardier-beetle

  any ground beetle of the genus Brachinus, which ejects a puff of volatile fluid from its abdomen with a popping sound when disturbed.

• Bombardon

  a bass reed stop on a pipe organ. a large, deep-toned, valved, brass wind instrument resembling a tuba. Historical Examples Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 2 Various The Complete Opera Book Gustav Kobb Fly Fishing in Wonderland Klahowya The Complete Opera Book Gustav Kobb noun a brass instrument of the tuba type, similar […]

• Bombasine

  bombazine. Historical Examples The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D., in Nine Volumes, Volume the Second Samuel Johnson Sinister Street, vol. 2 Compton Mackenzie A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume VII Robert Kerr

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