Bombard vs Shelling - What's the difference?
bombard | shelling |
a medieval primitive cannon, used chiefly in sieges for throwing heavy stone balls.
* Knolles
(obsolete) a bassoon-like medieval instrument
(obsolete) a large liquor container made of leather, in the form of a jug or a bottle.
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(poetic, rare) A bombardment.
(music) A bombardon.
To attack something with bombs, artillery shells or other missiles or projectiles.
(figuratively) To attack something or someone by directing objects at them.
(physics) To direct at a substance an intense stream of high-energy particles, usually sub-atomic or made of at most a few atoms.
An artillery bombardment
The removal of the shell from a nut, pea etc.
(uncountable) grain from which the husk has been removed
(topology)
As nouns the difference between bombard and shelling
is that bombard is a medieval primitive cannon, used chiefly in sieges for throwing heavy stone balls while shelling is an artillery bombardment.As verbs the difference between bombard and shelling
is that bombard is to attack something with bombs, artillery shells or other missiles or projectiles while shelling is .bombard
English
Noun
(en noun)- They planted in divers places twelve great bombards , wherewith they threw huge stones into the air, which, falling down into the city, might break down the houses.
- yond same black cloud, yond huge one, / looks like a foul bombard that would shed his liquor.