a. and sb. [see PROOF.]
A. adj. Strong enough to resist bombs or shells.
1755. Gentl. Mag., XXV. 390. There is no magazine bomb-proof.
1858. Beveridge, Hist. India, III. VIII. viii. 518. The grand mosque, which was supposed to be bomb-proof.
1863. F. Griffiths, Artil. Man. (ed. 9), 248. Casemates … are made bomb-proof.
B. sb. Bomb-proof shelter or structure.
1809. J. Barlow, Columb., VII. 618. And housed in bomb-proof all the host she bore.
1811. Wellington, Lett., in Gurw., Disp., VII. 262. I do not think bomb proof absolutely necessary.
1861. Russell, in Times, 11 June, 5/3. We entered a lofty bombproof, which was the bed-room of the commanding officer.
1870. Daily News, 12 Nov., 5/6 In the rear of the bomb-proofs, at frequent intervals, were the earthworks thrown up for batteries of field guns.
