Difference between Bombardon and Bombard

What is the difference between Bombardon and Bombard?

Bombardon as a noun is a brass instrument, the bass version of the tuba. while Bombard as a noun is a medieval primitive cannon, used chiefly in sieges for throwing heavy stone balls.

Bombardon

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A brass instrument, the bass version of the tuba. A bass instrument of the shawm family

Bombard

Part of speech: noun

Definition: a medieval primitive cannon, used chiefly in sieges for throwing heavy stone balls.a bassoon-like medieval instrument

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To attack something with bombs, artillery shells or other missiles or projectiles.To attack something or someone by directing objects at them.To direct at a substance an intense stream of high-energy particles, usually sub-atomic or made of at most a few atoms.

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