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Very cowardly, not quite returning gunfire
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volley
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The simultaneous firing of a number of missiles or bullets; the projectiles so fired vb. 1 (context transitive English) To fire a volley of shots 2 (context sports transitive English) To hit the ball before it touches the ground
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
Volley may refer to: Volley fire (infantry tactic) , the simultaneous firing of a number of missiles In sports : Volley (tennis) , in tennis is a shot that is hit before the ball bounces on the ground Volley (football) , an air-borne strike in association ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1570s, "discharge of a number of guns at once," from Middle French volee "flight" (12c.), from Vulgar Latin *volta , fem. noun from Latin volatum , past participle of volare "to fly" (see volant ). Sporting sense of "a return of the ball before it hits ...
Usage examples of volley.
A volley of gunfire tore into the Aberrant creature and it squawked in fury, but it would not let go of its prize.
This made Raymo a figure of respect among his fellow prisoners during the twenty months they would spend in the fortress of La Cabana listening to rifle reports from the moat, where the executions took place, each crisp volley followed by a precise echo, an afterclap, as the prisoners thought about the dog that lived in the moat, lapping up blood.
Behind these small ships, the overlapped shields of the foremost ballistas flickered imperceptibly in precise timing as they launched a volley of defensive projectile fire, driving back the first robot assault, annihilating many of the machine suicide ships before they could get through.
They all shouted, and the Armorer fired a volley of 9 mm rounds from the Uzi, tearing the quivering leaves off the trees.
Unlike any arquebus Pedi had ever heard of, however, these had no problem with water or weatheras they demonstrated with the very first volley.
More had scattered to the winds when ordered units of dragoons had ridden in and poured two deadly pistol volleys against the straggling, vulnerable flanks, then regrouped and reloaded out of arquebus range.
Harphaxi mercenary cavalry made a brief feint toward the left of the Hostigi force, but the arquebusiers let fly, their volley felling two score of horses and emptying a few saddles.
Their arquebusiers continued to fire aimed volleys at any of the enemy who ventured too close.
Leo, than a volley of curses, and invectives, and stones, assaulted the odious minister of the emperor and the synod.
Suddenly the blood-curdling war-whoop arose from all sides at once, a rattling volley of rifle-shots pattered against the palisades, and a swarm of yelling, naked figures leaped from the surrounding obscurity.
Hogan heard the volley, very distantly, and then came the bells clamouring and he straightened his uniform, took off his bicorne hat, and went into the Cathedral.
We fired a volley point blank into them and, as it was hopeless for fifty men to withstand such an onslaught, bolted during the temporary confusion that ensued, taking refuge, as it had been arranged that we should do, at a point of vantage farther down the line of fortifications, whence we maintained our galling fire.
They turned back to the firing embrasures and poured their volleys down into the mass of Dervish clambering up towards them.
As for Dunster, it seemed that he had fired yet another random volley into the air and had wounded no one.
We would also almost certainly succeed in taking out Electro on our first volley.