Definitions
direct high energy particles or radiation against
Word origin
From Middle English bombard, from Middle French bombarde (“a bombard, mortar, catapult"; also "a bassoon-like musical instrument”), from Latin bombus (“buzzing; booming”).
Used in a sentence
“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.”
“[…] yond same black cloud, yond huge one, / looks like a foul bombard that would shed his liquor.”
“With mines and parallels contracts the space; Then bids the battering floats his labors crown And pour their bombard on the shuddering town”
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