3. A bomb ketch. Bomb chest (Mil.), a chest filled with bombs, or only with gunpowder, placed under ground, to cause destruction by its explosion. — Bomb ketch, Bomb vessel (Naut.), a small ketch or vessel, very strongly built, on which mortars are mounted to be used in naval bombardments; — called also mortar vessel. — Bomb lance, a lance or harpoon with an explosive head, used in whale fishing. — Volcanic bomb, a mass of lava of a spherical or pear shape. "I noticed volcanic bombs." Darwin.
BOMB
Bomb, v. t.
Defn: To bombard. [Obs.] Prior.
BOMB
Bomb, v. i. Etym: [Cf. Boom.]
Defn: To sound; to boom; to make a humming or buzzing sound. [Obs.]
B. Jonson.
BOMBACE
Bom"bace, n. Etym: [OF.]
Defn: Cotton; padding. [Obs.]
BOMBARD
Bom"bard, n. Etym: [F. bombarde, LL. bombarda, fr. L. bombus + -ard.
Cf. Bumper, and see Bomb.]
1. (Gun.)
Defn: 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.