Bomb

Bomb

n.
  1. A great noise; a hollow sound. [Obs.]
    A pillar of iron . . . which if you had struck, would make . . . a great bomb in the chamber beneath.
  2. A shell; esp. a spherical shell, like those fired from mortars. See Shell. (Mil.)
  3. A bomb ketch.

Phrases & Compounds
Bomb chest
a chest filled with bombs, or only with gunpowder, placed under ground, to cause destruction by its explosion.
Bomb ketch
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.

Bomb

v. t.
  1. To bombard. [Obs.]

Bomb

v. i.
  1. To sound; to boom; to make a humming or buzzing sound. [Obs.]