Crossword clues for cannonade
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cannonade \Can`non*ade"\, n. [F. Canonnade; cf. It. cannanata.]
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The act of discharging cannon and throwing ball, shell, etc., for the purpose of destroying an army, or battering a town, ship, or fort; -- usually, an attack of some continuance.
A furious cannonade was kept up from the whole circle of batteries on the devoted towm.
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Fig.; A loud noise like a cannonade; a booming.
Blue Walden rolls its cannonade.
--Ewerson.
Cannonade \Can`non*ade"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Cannonade; p. pr. & vb. n. Cannonading.] To attack with heavy artillery; to batter with cannon shot.
Cannonade \Can`non*ade"\, v. i. To discharge cannon; as, the army cannonaded all day.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"discharge of artillery," 1650s, from cannon + -ade. As a verb, from 1660s. Compare French canonnade (16c.), Italian cannonata. Related: Cannonaded; cannonading.
Wiktionary
n. 1 Firing artillery in a large amount for a length of time . 2 (context figurative English) A loud noise like a cannonade; a booming. vb. To discharge artillery fire.
WordNet
n. intense and continuous artillery fire [syn: drumfire]
v. attack with canons or artillery
Wikipedia
For the cannon see Carronade Cannonade (May 12, 1971 – August 3, 1993) was an American Thoroughbred racehorse best known as the winner of the 1974 Kentucky Derby.
Usage examples of "cannonade".
The abattis had been torn to pieces by the cannonade, and the men did not wait for the ladders, but leapt into the ditch and scrambled up on the other side.
On Saturday, December 16, 1944 the predawn stillness of the Ardennes was shattered abruptly by a thunderous cannonade from 1,900 German guns.
In the night a storm broke in the mountains above them and came cannonading downcountry cracking and booming and the stark gray world appeared again and again out of the night in the shrouded flare of the lightning.
As we could hear the cannonading, we decided that we would avoid the Malines road and would try to skirt around the zone of trouble and work our way into Brussels from the west.
Runciman listened to the ter rible noise of the cannonade pounding uentes de Onoro, a noise made worse by the splintering sound of volti r muskets firing over the stream.
The noise of the crowds on the roads mingled with the cannonading and Brady felt a frisson of fear.
Five or six shots of small arms in every newspaper, and repeated cannonading in pamphlets, might, I think, satisfy you.
There was a general expression of determination among the prisoners to answer any cannonade with a desperate attempt to force the Stockade.
Opposite are high redoubts and ravelins that the Austrians have constructed for opposing the passage across, which the French ostentatiously set themselves to attempt by the large bridge, amid heavy cannonading.
The cries of the sufferers muffled the sound of a formidable cannonade.
Fleets ramming and cannonading on a sea of azure, and the white walls of cities he'd only read of, Zanj and Azanian.
Water brawled, foamed, spouted off rocks, filled air with an ongoing cannonade and made the vessel rock and shudder.
Philboyd seemed to stay perfectly still for at least two or three seconds, his face frozen in unbelieving disappointment, before being snatched up into the air and cannonaded against the wall, down which he easily slid to collect in a fat puddle on the floor.
The horses' hooves struck sparks from the cobblestones and the thunder of their passage cannonaded between the tall buildings on either side of Bindle Street.
The batteries, constructed on the edge of the ridge, were the positions from which the long approach march had been cannonaded, and they had been built purely to defend the gunners from counter-battery fire.