Crossword clues for volleys
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Volley \Vol"ley\, n.; pl. Volleys. [F. vol['e]e; flight, a volley, or discharge of several guns, fr. voler to fly, L. volare. See Volatile.]
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A flight of missiles, as arrows, bullets, or the like; the simultaneous discharge of a number of small arms.
Fiery darts in flaming volleys flew.
--Milton.Each volley tells that thousands cease to breathe.
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A burst or emission of many things at once; as, a volley of words. ``This volley of oaths.''
--B. Jonson.Rattling nonsense in full volleys breaks.
--Pope. (Tennis) A return of the ball before it touches the ground.
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(Cricket) A sending of the ball full to the top of the wicket. Half volley.
(Tennis) A return of the ball immediately after is has touched the ground.
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(Cricket) A sending of the ball so that after touching the ground it flies towards the top of the wicket.
--R. A. Proctor.On the volley, at random. [Obs.] ``What we spake on the volley begins work.''
--Massinger.Volley gun, a gun with several barrels for firing a number of shots simultaneously; a kind of mitrailleuse.
Wiktionary
n. (plural of volley English)
Usage examples of "volleys".
The brigade had formed squares and blasted the German horsemen with volleys of musket-fire so that the cavalry milled about in confusion, men and horses dropping, until, bleeding and baulked, they were forced to retire.
The Cuirassiers were tumbled down to the crushed rye as the musket volleys settled into their killing rhythm.
A battle line was a mass of close-packed men who could fire a deadly weight of metal in disciplined volleys, but to upset those men and thin their ranks, the skirmishers were sent ahead like a swarm of wasps to sting and unsettle them.
All along the centre of the position the Dutch had collapsed, leaving a great inviting hole into which the French could swarm, yet from the far right flank there still came the sound of reassuring volleys, proof that Saxe-Weimar's men were defending staunchly.
Instead they were marching backwards and pausing every few steps to fire steady and effective volleys at their French attackers.
Outside the square the horsemen veered away from the platoon volleys, while inside the square the trapped Lancers were butchered.
The musket volleys crashed smoke and flame, and punched their bullets clean through the armour plate.
Somehow enough Frenchmen survived the musket volleys to reach the-chateau's walls where they clawed to drag the British muskets clean out of the loopholes.
Outside the chateau, and giving the fight the desperation of urgency, volleys of French musket-fire witnessed that the building's perimeter was again under heavy assault.
No troops fired faster than the British, and now, for the first time that day, the French suffered under the flaying volleys of platoon fire.
Not that their retreat mattered, for most of the German garrison was safe behind the stone walls of the farm buildings from where they kept up the stinging volleys that had already stalled and broken the attack of the westernmost column.
They were still in line and were firing steady volleys that drove the French infantry backwards.
The Hanoverians, firing fast volleys, were blinding themselves with smoke, but then the men of the right-hand companies heard the thudding of the hooves and stared in panic through the powder smoke to see the first glints of steel armour and raised swords.
The French musket volleys were slow, but the Crapauds outnumbered the Goddamns and were clawing their bloody way towards the ridge's crest and victory.
The French flanks would not wheel up the slope into the face of the musket volleys, so instead the whole enemy mass edged uphill in neither line nor column, but in a half-way formation instead.