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▪ I. † ˈtrombe1 Obs. rare. Also trompe, trumbe. [ad. It. tromba a hand-grenade, tromba di fuoco ‘a kind of casting wild-fier’ (Florio, 1598); cf. obs. F. trombe a hollow humming-top. With trompe cf. trump n.1 hollow tube, trumpet, etc.] a. A hollow tube filled with explosives; a hand-grenade. b. A mortar for firing rockets.
1560Whitehorne Ord. Souldiours xxix. 39 b, Trombes or trunkes of fyre. Ibid., Putte in the trumbe a handfull of serpentine poulder vnmixte. 1588Lucar tr. Tartaglia's Colloq. Arte Shooting App. 85 How you may make a Trunke or Trombe which will shoote fireworkes. 1591Garrard's Art Warre 317 For preparations against the assault you must not be destitute of all sorts of arteficial fire, as Trompes, Granades, Bullets. ▪ II. trombe variant of trompe2, blast apparatus. |