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Found 1 hit - Term: bomb vessel, Database: *, Strategy: prefix
[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
bomb \bomb\, n. f. bombe bombshell, fr. l. bombus a humming or
   buzzing noise, gr. ?.
   1913 webster
   1. a great noise; a hollow sound. obs.
      1913 webster

            a pillar of iron . . . which if you had struck,
            would make . . . a great bomb in the chamber
            beneath.                              --bacon.
      1913 webster

   2. mil. a shell; esp. a spherical shell, like those fired
      from mortars. see shell.
      1913 webster

   3. a bomb ketch.
      1913 webster

   bomb chest mil., a chest filled with bombs, or only with
      gunpowder, placed under ground, to cause destruction by
      its explosion.

   bomb ketch, bomb vessel naut., 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.
      "i noticed volcanic bombs." --darwin.
      1913 webster
see also:
shell bomb chest bomb ketch bomb vessel mortar vessel bomb lance 
volcanic bomb 

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