Cannonade

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·Impf & ·p.p. of Cannonade.

II. Cannonade ·noun Fig.; A loud noise like a cannonade; a booming.

III. Cannonade ·vi To discharge cannon; as, the army cannonaded all day.

IV. Cannonade ·vt To attack with heavy artillery; to batter with cannon shot.

V. Cannonade ·noun 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.

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