[f. prec.]
1. trans. To fire bombs at; to bombard.
1688. I. Clayton, in Phil. Trans., XVII. 984. The Town could never be Bomb’d by Land.
a. 1704. Sedley, Poems, Wks. 1722, I. 78. While you Bomb Towns in France.
1797. Nelson, in Nicolas, Disp. (1846), VII. p. cxlvi. The intention of bombing us still goes on.
2. To throw with violence, let fly. dial.
