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Bombalo
| Глоссарий морской лексики и терминологии (английский язык) |
A delicate kind of sand-eel taken in quantities at bombay.
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Bombard, английский
- A piece of ordnance, anciently in use before the introduction of more complete cannon with improved gunpowder, propelling iron balls. its bore, for the projection of stone shot, sometimes exceeded 20 inches in diameter, but was short; its chamber, for containing the powder-charge, being about as long, but much narrower both within and without. there were also very diminutive varieties of it. it has been vaguely called by some writers basilisk, and by the dutch donderbass. used to assail a town, fortress, or fleet, by the projection of shells from mortars. it was also the name of a barrel, or large vessel for liquids; hence, among other choice epithets, prince henry calls that “tun of man,” falstaff, a “huge bombard of sack.” also, a mediterranean vessel, with two masts like the english ketch.
- [1] to attack with artillery, bombs, or mortars. [2] a 15th century large-bore, short-barreled cannon.
Bomb or mortar vessels, английский
Small ships fortified for throwing bombs into a fortress; said to be the invention of m. reyneau, and to have been first used at the bombardment of algiers in 1682. until then it had been judged impracticable to bombard a place from the sea.
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