BOMB

bomb. Bomb, n. a shell to be filled with powder, and sent from a mortar

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Bomb (�), n. [[F. bombe bombshell, fr. L. bombus a humming or buzzing noise, Gr. �.]] 1. 1. A great noise; a hollow sound.
A pillar of iron . . . which if you had struck, would make . . . a great bomb in the chamber beneath. Bacon. 2. 2. (Mil.) A shell; esp. a spherical shell, like those fired from mortars. See Shell.
3. 3. A bomb ketch.
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.