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Definition of Bombproofs
1. bombproof [v] - See also: bombproof
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bombproofs
Literary usage of Bombproofs
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Campaigns of the One Hundred and Forty-sixth Regiment, New York State by Mary Genevie Green Brainard (1915)
"bombproofs were also made for the officers, whose quarters were not so close ...
These bombproofs were constructed as follows: A hole was dug in the ground ..."
2. The Russo-Japanese War: Reports from British Officers Attached to the by Great Britain War Office. General Staff, Great Britain War Office (1908)
"The bombproofs were much wrecked by artillery fire; 4'7-inch howitzers and ...
Those bombproofs furnished with an iron plate between earth and timber ..."
3. Personal Recollections of the War of the Rebellion by T M Coan, New York Commandery (1891)
"Large bombproofs have been erected for quarters against the sea face. ...
There are but three outlets from these bombproofs, casemates, and galleries, ..."
4. The Story of the Forty-eighth: A Record of the Campaigns of the Forty-eighth by Joseph Gould (1908)
"We kept close to the bombproofs on the first day's shelling, as we thought ...
The "bombproofs," so called, were strongly constructed and useful; at night, ..."
5. The British Navy: Its Strength, Resources, and Administration by Thomas Brassey Brassey (1882)
"... which will tell on casemates and bombproofs. The smaller class of monitors,
as at present constructed, will always require a steamer to tow them, ..."
6. The Seventh Regiment Rhode Island Volunteers in the Civil War, 1862-1865 by William Palmer Hopkins, George Bacheler Peck (1903)
"There were no slated roofs nor gilded domes, nor even picturesque tents, merely
mounds of earth, termed bombproofs or dugouts. wherein we ..."
7. Port Arthur, a Monster Heroism by Richard Barry (1905)
"Below these traverses were galleries where the garrison lived; and below the
galleries were the bombproofs protecting the ammunition. ..."
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