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plural cannonades
The firing of artillery for a length of time. quotations examples
A furious cannonade was kept up from the whole circle of batteries on the devoted town.
1855–1858, William H[ickling] Prescott, History of the Reign of Philip the Second, King of Spain, volumes (please specify |volume=I to III), Boston, Mass.: Phillips, Sampson, and Company
(figuratively) A loud noise like a cannonade; a booming. quotations examples
Not for a regiment's parade, / Nor evil laws or rulers made, / Blue Walden rolls its cannonade, […]
1867, Ralph Waldo Emerson, “May-Day”, in May-Day and Other Pieces, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor and Fields, page 11
third-person singular simple present cannonades, present participle cannonading, simple past and past participle cannonaded
To discharge artillery fire upon. examples