Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who delivered liquor in bombards to customers.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete One who carried liquor or beer in a can or bombard.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete One who carried
liquor orbeer in acan orbombard .
Etymologies
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Examples
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And yet I call to mind that ere we fell out this foolish bombardman did say something of the matter.
Sir Nigel Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1906
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And yet I call to mind that ere we fell out this foolish bombardman did say something of the matter.
Sir Nigel Arthur Conan Doyle 1894
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I have bestrode my warhorse in my armor and have looked down at the sooty, smoky bombardman beside me, and I have thought that perhaps I was the last of the old and he the first of the new; that there would come a time when he and his engines would sweep you and me and the rest of us from the field. "
Sir Nigel Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1906
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I have bestrode my warhorse in my armor and have looked down at the sooty, smoky bombardman beside me, and I have thought that perhaps I was the last of the old and he the first of the new; that there would come a time when he and his engines would sweep you and me and the rest of us from the field. "
Sir Nigel Arthur Conan Doyle 1894
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