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Cannonry

Cannonry \Can"non*ry\, n. Cannon, collectively; artillery.

The ringing of bells and roaring of cannonry proclaimed his course through the country.
--W. Irving.

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cannonry

n. 1 cannons, collectively; battery of cannons. 2 The firing of cannons.

Usage examples of "cannonry".

More Frenchmen press, and roaring antiphons Of cannonry contuse the roofs and walls and trees.

I not disclose to him my thought, As nightly worded by the whistling shrouds, That Brest will never see our battled hulls Helming to north in pomp of cannonry To take the front in this red pilgrimage!

Hot-hasting succours of light cannonry Lately come up, relieve the English stress.