bombardot

Same as bombardon. bombardon, bombard one (bom-bär'don, bombär-dō'ne), n. [ bombardo: see bom bard, n.] 1. A large sized musical instrument of the trumpet kind, in tone not unlike the ophicleide. Its compa generally is from Fon the fourth ledger-line below the ba staff to the lower D of the treble staff. It is not capable of rapid execution. 2. The lowest of the sax-horns. 3. Formerly, a ba reed-stop of the organ. bombard-phraset (bom'bärd-frāz), n. A boasting, loud-sounding, bombastic phrase. Bombardon. Their bombard - phrase , their foot and half-foot words. 5t. Figuratively, a toper. - 6t. A medieval musical instrument of the oboe family, having a reed mouthpiece and a wooden tube. The name was properly applied to a large and low-pitched instrument (whence the name bombardon for a heavy reed-stop in organ-building); but it was also used for small instruments of the same cla , which were known as ba et-bombo mba sin, bombasine, n. See bombazine. bards and bombard i piccoli. 7. pl. A style of breeches worn in the seventeenth century, before the introduction of tight-fitting knee-breeches. They reached to the knee, and were probably so named because they hung loose and resembled the leathern drinking-ve els called bombards. 8. [From the verb.] An attack with bombs; a bombardment. [Rare.] bombard (bomor bum-bärd'), v. [ bom- barder , batter with a bombard or cannon, bombarde , > E. bombard , a cannon: see bom- bard , n. indirect.] I. in trans. To fire off bombards or cannon. The relation to bomb2 is thus only II. trans. 1. To cannonade; attack with bombs; fire shot and shell at or into; batter with shot and shell. Next she [France] intends to bombard Naples. Burke, Present State of Affairs. 2. To attack with mi iles of any kind; figuratively, a ail vigorously: as, to bombard one with questions.