The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.
Wiktionary
n. A discharge of artillery fire. vb. (present participle of cannonade English)
Usage examples of "cannonading".
About eight o'clock a heavy cannonading was heard in addition to the musketry.
Involuntarily listening now to the cannonading, constantly growing nearer and more violent, Alpatitch hastened back to the inn.
But these sounds attracted little attention among the citizens compared with the roar of the cannonading heard beyond the city.
Every vessel that carried a gun had busied itself in cannonading, and the rest did not move.
He might, had he dared, have made a dash across the ford on the morning of Thursday, and assaulted the town in the rear while Phips was cannonading it in front.
The cannonading was still going on, prolonging the conflict way into the night.
After midnight the cannonading ceased, but silence was by no means re-established.
The cannonading of the Germans and the bursting of the French shells sounded from his retreat like a distant tempest.
When word reached the other islands that Malama, daughter of the King of Kona, was dying, the alii assembled, as they had at deathbeds for untold generations, and in after years whenever an American who had been in Lahaina at the time was asked for his most vivid impression of the island, he never referred to the cannonading but to this last mournful gathering of the alii: "They came from distant Kauai in ships and from Lanai in canoes.
The cannonading of Lahaina and its debauch by Christian Americans had already pushed him to a stark question: "Is this new religion good for my people?
But he had not waited for Abner to develop the full meaning of 308 HAWAH his speculations, as they had matured on the coral reef, so Abner chased him and said, "What I wanted to ask, John, was this: 'At that moment of what I have called God's revenge for the cannonading, did you feel any actual sense of revenge against the sailors?
A fierce cannonading is going on continually and I lift my eyes from the sheet at each report to see the puffs of smoke two or three miles off.
We expected a heavy bombardment, but five days of continuous fog have made the firing very infrequent, though we have heard heavy cannonading at other points of the line.
Heavy cannonading continued during the entire march and the northern skies were lit up continually with the German fusées.
Her limbs relaxed, her skin faintly flushed, she lay in deepest but natural slumber undisturbed by the incessant cannonading of the thunder under which the walls of the blue globe shuddered.