Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- An obsolete form of
bombard .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- obsolete See
bombard .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Obsolete form of
bombard .
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Examples
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Dr. Johnson, however, strangely enough deduces the word bumpkin from bump; but what if it should prove to be a corruption of bumbard, or bombard: in low Latin, bombardus, a great gun, and from thence applied to a large flagon, or full glass.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 387, August 28, 1829 Various
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I hear it sing i 'the wind: yond' same black cloud, yond 'huge one, looks like a foul [5] bumbard that would shed his liquor ...
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