bombard

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• transitive verb To attack with bombs, shells, or missiles.
• transitive verb To assail persistently; harass: synonym: barrage.
• transitive verb To irradiate (an atom).
• transitive verb To attack with a cannon firing stone balls.
• noun An early form of cannon that fired stone balls.

from The Century Dictionary.

• To fire off bombards or cannon.
• To cannonade; attack with bombs; fire shot and shell at or into; batter with shot and shell.
• To attack with missiles of any kind; figuratively, assail vigorously: as, to bombard one with questions.
• noun The name generally given in Europe to the cannon during the first century of its use.
• noun See bombardelle.
• noun A small vessel with two masts, like the English ketch, used in the Mediterranean; a bomb-ketch.
• noun A large leathern jug or bottle for holding liquor. See black-jack, 1.
• noun Figuratively, a toper.
• noun A medieval musical instrument of the oboe family, having a reed mouthpiece and a wooden tube.
• noun plural A style of breeches worn in the seventeenth century, before the introduction of tight-fitting knee-breeches.
• noun [From the verb.] An attack with bombs; a bombardment.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun (Mus.), obsolete See bombardo.
• transitive verb To attack with bombards or with artillery; especially, to throw shells, hot shot, etc., at or into.
• noun (Gun.) A piece of heavy ordnance formerly used for throwing stones and other ponderous missiles. It was the earliest kind of cannon.
• noun Poetic & R. A bombardment.
• noun obsolete A large drinking vessel or can, or a leather bottle, for carrying liquor or beer.
• noun obsolete Padded breeches.
• noun [Obs.] inflated language; bombast.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

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

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• verb address with continuously or persistently, as if with a barrage
• verb throw bombs at or attack with bombs
• noun a large shawm; the bass member of the shawm family
• verb cast, hurl, or throw repeatedly with some missile
• verb direct high energy particles or radiation against