A shell filled with gunpowder. (Greek, bombos;Latin, bombus, any
deep noise. Thus Festus says: “Bombus, sonus non apium tantum, aut poculi bilbientis, sed etiam tonitrûs.” And Catullus applies it to the blast of a trumpet, “efflabant cornua bombis,” lxiv. 263.)
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