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colleen (4679 words)
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Addenda to the 1923 Printing of Webster's Collegiate Dictionary (Third Edition of the Merriam Series), by colleen
babe, by conceptwriter
I am : violent, by vega
Out to Sea, by reesetee
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One definition WeirdNET does not list is this one: "A small war vessel carrying mortars for throwing bombs and also known as a bomb-galliot, bomb-ketch, bomb-ship, bomb-vessel, or bombard. See also ketch."
—A Sea of Words
Too right kewp. I sent a message in Finland as follows.
"Please meet Bomb from Tornio train and bring to main entrance of station."
Lucky I didn't get arrested.
Anna
"bomb" as verb did not enter common use until WWI.