— bombarder , n. — bombardment , n.
v. /bom bahrd", beuhm-/ ; n. /bom"bahrd/ , v.t.
1. to attack or batter with artillery fire.
2. to attack with bombs.
3. to assail vigorously: to bombard the speaker with questions.
4. Physics. to direct high energy particles or radiations against: to bombard a nucleus.
n.
5. the earliest kind of cannon, originally throwing stone balls.
6. Naut. See bomb ketch .
7. an English leather tankard of the 18th century and earlier, similar to but larger than a blackjack.
8. Obs. a leather jug.
[ 1400-50; late ME (n.) bombarda stone-throwing engine (L bomb ( us ) booming noise (see BOMB) + -arda -ARD) ]
Syn. 3. beset, harass, hound, besiege.