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Bombilation


BOMBILA'TION, noun [Latin bombilo.] Sound; report; noise. [Little Used.]

BOMB'-KETCH

BOMB'-VESSEL, noun A small ship or vessel, constructed for throwing bombs into a fortress from the sea, and built remarkably strong, in order to sustain the shocks produced by the discharge of the mortars. They generally are rigged as ketches.