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▪ I. bombing, vbl. n.|ˈbɒmɪŋ, ˈbʌmɪŋ|
[f. bomb v. + -ing1.]
An attacking with bombs; bombarding; the action or operation of throwing or dropping bombs. Also transf.
1691Luttrell Brief Rel. (1857) II. 195 The bombing of which had cost them a good summ of money and men. 1719D'Urfey Pills (1872) II. 129 The General would leave Bombing, Of Towns in hot Campaigns. 1915Daily Mail 18 May 6/4 Three Air Raids on Calais. Futile bombing by 3 Zeppelins. 1940‘Gun Buster’ Return via Dunkirk ii. xi. 167 The bombing had been mercilessly thorough. 1953N. Tinbergen Herring Gull's World iv. 31, I watched Hooded Crows picking up the mussels and dropping them on the road... I could not but conclude that they had concentrated their ‘bombing’ on the road. 1956A. H. Compton Atomic Quest 228 These bombings were reducing Japan's fighting machine to impotence. 1968Lund & Ludlam PQ17 vi. 127 During all this time the bombing had continued, hour after hour.
Also attrib., as bombing attack, bombing offensive, bombing party, bombing plane, bombing raid, bombing sight, bombing squad; bombing run = bomb run. Also bombing up, the loading of aircraft with bombs.
1942Times Weekly 2 Dec. 6/3 While Stukas were occasionally used for level bombing attacks ‘they did not carry out one proper dive-bombing attack during the entire campaign’.
1917‘Contact’ Airman's Outings 171 After a tribute has been paid to the bombing offensives for which the Naval Air Service has always been famous.
1915Morning Post 29 May 8/1 A bombing party presents a weird sight... The men carry 5 or 6 grenades each. 1934Webster, Bombing plane. 1936Discovery Feb. 33/1 The Air Ministry..use them as practice ranges for bombing planes.
1917Flying 14 Feb. 89/1 In bombing raids..it is necessary for aeroplanes to fly in a fixed formation. 1941J. A. Hammerton ABC of RAF 23 An aspect of training for night-flying: after a practice ‘bombing run’ with a camera obscura the pupils check up results. 1946News Chron. 2 Mar. 3/3 Trent completed his bombing run..and dropped his bombs in the target area.
1920Flight XII. 744/2 An invention of bombing sights for aeroplanes. 1944Times 20 Apr. 5/7 One factory turned from making fountain pens and propelling pencils to the production of aircraft bombing sights.
1923Kipling Irish Guards in Gt. War I. ii. 125 O'Brien started to train fresh bombing-squads with the Mills bomb. 1932Flight 10 June 508/1 (caption) Bombing up: Fixing a 550-lb. bomb in its rack. 1939Times 3 Nov. 8/5 In another hangar the King watched a demonstration of ‘bombing up’. On low trucks bombs were run under the body of the aeroplane and there by mechanical means loaded into the machine.
▪ II. bombing
obs. form of booming. |