1. (n.) A great noise; a hollow sound.

2. (n.) A shell; esp. a spherical shell, like those fired from mortars. See Shell.

3. (n.) A bomb ketch.

4. (v. t.) To bombard.

5. (v. i.) To sound; to boom; to make a humming or buzzing sound.

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