: a bomb-carrying compartment on the underside of a combat airplane fuselage usually with down-swinging doors through which bombs are dropped
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Aeron., Mil.
(in the fuselage of a bomber) the compartment in which bombs are carried and from which they are dropped.
[1915-20]
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bomb bay,
a compartment in the fuselage of a bomber in which bombs are carried and from which they are dropped.
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n. a compartment in the fuselage of an aircraft in which bombs are held and from which they may be dropped
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a part of an aircraft in which bombs are held and from which they can be dropped
Useful english dictionary. 2012.