Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who delivered liquor in bombards to customers.

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

  • noun obsolete One who carried liquor or beer in a can or bombard.

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  • noun obsolete One who carried liquor or beer in a can or bombard.

Etymologies

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bombard +‎ -man

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Examples

  • And yet I call to mind that ere we fell out this foolish bombardman did say something of the matter.

    Sir Nigel Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1906

  • And yet I call to mind that ere we fell out this foolish bombardman did say something of the matter.

    Sir Nigel Arthur Conan Doyle 1894

  • I have bestrode my warhorse in my armor and have looked down at the sooty, smoky bombardman beside me, and I have thought that perhaps I was the last of the old and he the first of the new; that there would come a time when he and his engines would sweep you and me and the rest of us from the field. "

    Sir Nigel Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1906

  • I have bestrode my warhorse in my armor and have looked down at the sooty, smoky bombardman beside me, and I have thought that perhaps I was the last of the old and he the first of the new; that there would come a time when he and his engines would sweep you and me and the rest of us from the field. "

    Sir Nigel Arthur Conan Doyle 1894

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