What is "cannonaded"

Usage examples of "cannonaded".

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.

Overhead it shrilled, and outside the breakers cannonaded, their rage aquiver through the island.

After minutes the sound arrived, a roar whose echoes cannonaded from hill to hill for what seemed like a long while.

When the press and pulpit cannonaded this book, he introduced himself to its author by saying--"I have come to comfort you.

It settled on the far end of the street where sunlight cannonaded out of the mouth of Grafton Street, a golden vision that seemed unattached to the rest of Dublin city.