Emily Dickinson Lexicon

BOM'BARD, n. [bomb and ard, kind. Fr. bombarde; Sp. and It. bombarda.]

1. A piece of short thick ordnance with a large mouth, formerly used, some of them carrying a ball of three hundred pounds weight. It is called also basilisk, and by the Dutch, donderbuss, thunder-gun. But the thing and the name are no longer in use. – Encyc.
2. An attack with bombs; bombardment. – Barlow.
3. A barrel; a drinking vessel. [Obs.] – Johnson. Ash.