1. to attack with bombs, shells, or missiles.
2. to assail persistently, as with requests. see synonyms at attack, barrage2.
3. to irradiate (an atom).
4. to attack with a cannon firing stone balls.
5. an early form of cannon that fired stone balls.

1. a medieval primitive cannon, used chiefly in sieges for throwing heavy stone balls.
2. a bassoon-like medieval instrument
3. a large liquor container made of leather, in the form of a jug or a bottle.
4. to attack something with bombs, artillery shells or other missiles or projectiles.
5. to attack something or someone by directing objects at them.
6. to direct at a substance an intense stream of high-energy particles, usually sub-atomic or made of at most a few atoms.

1. A piece of heavy ordnance formerly used for throwing stones and other ponderous missiles. it was the earliest kind of cannon.
2. A bombardment.
3. A large drinking vessel or can, or a leather bottle, for carrying liquor or beer.
4. padded breeches.
5. see bombardo.
6. to attack with bombards or with artillery; especially, to throw shells, hot shot, etc., at or into.

1. to fire off bombards or cannon.
2. to cannonade; attack with bombs; fire shot and shell at or into; batter with shot and shell.
3. to attack with missiles of any kind; figuratively, assail vigorously: as, to bombard one with questions.
4. the name generally given in europe to the cannon during the first century of its use.
5. see bombardelle.
6. A small vessel with two masts, like the english ketch, used in the mediterranean; a bomb-ketch.
7. A large leathern jug or bottle for holding liquor. see black-jack, 1.
8. figuratively, a toper.
9. A medieval musical instrument of the oboe family, having a reed mouthpiece and a wooden tube.
10. plural A style of breeches worn in the seventeenth century, before the introduction of tight-fitting knee-breeches.
11. [from the verb.] an attack with bombs; a bombardment.

1. address with continuously or persistently, as if with a barrage
2. throw bombs at or attack with bombs
3. a large shawm; the bass member of the shawm family
4. cast, hurl, or throw repeatedly with some missile
5. direct high energy particles or radiation against