"bandirovka"

[Steve Marder]

---- "Katz wrote: 
> Dear colleagues:
> 
> The word occurs in Tolstoy's "Sevastopol v dekabre." A soldier is explaining
> how he was wounded:
> 
> Na pyatom baksione... Kak pervaya bandirovka byla: navel pushku, stal
> otkhodit', etakim manerom, k drugoi ambrazure, kak on udarit menya....
> 
> Can anyone help with the meaning of bandirovka?
> 
> Many thanks.

Bombardirovka.

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