Hypertext Webster Gateway: "cannonade"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Cannonade \Can`non*ade"\, n. [F. Canonnade; cf. It. cannanata.]
1. 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.
A furious cannonade was kept up from the whole
circle of batteries on the devoted towm. --Prescott.
2. Fig.; A loud noise like a cannonade; a booming.
Blue Walden rolls its cannonade. --Ewerson.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Cannonade \Can`non*ade"\, v. i.
To discharge cannon; as, the army cannonaded all day.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
cannonade
n : intense and continuous artillery fire [syn: {drumfire}]
v : attack with canons or artillery
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