2. A bombardment. [Poetic & R.] J. Barlow.
3. 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. Shak.
4. pl.
Defn: Padded breeches. [Obs.] Bombard phrase, inflated language; bombast. [Obs.] B. Jonson.
BOMBARD
Bom"bard, n. Etym: [OE. bombarde, fr. F. bombarde.] (Mus.)
Defn: See Bombardo. [Obs.]
BOMBARD
Bom*bard", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Bombarded; p. pr. & vb. n.
Bombarding.]
Defn: 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.
BOMBARDIER Bom`bar*dier", n. Etym: [F. bombardier.] (Mil.) (a) One who used or managed a bombard; an artilleryman; a gunner. [Archaic] (b) A noncommissioned officer in the British artillery. Bombardier beetle (Zoöl.), a kind of beetle (Brachinus crepitans), so called because, when disturbed, it makes an explosive discharge of a pungent and acrid vapor from its anal glands. The name is applied to other related species, as the B. displosor, which can produce ten or twelve explosions successively. The common American species is B. fumans.
BOMBARDMAN
Bom"bard*man, n.