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▪ I. cannonade, n.|kænəˈneɪd|
[f. cannon n. + -ade: cf. It. cannonata, Sp. cañonada (Minsheu).]
A continued discharge of cannon; an attack with cannon.
1655R. Flecknoe Trav. 12 Your young gallants of the time..talk of nothing but rampards and parapats, musquetads..and canonads. 1769Robertson Chas. V, III. viii. 96 A furious canonade. 1776W. Heath in Sparks Corr. Amer. Rev. (1853) I. 333 We could not reduce the fort by cannonade. 1837Carlyle Fr. Rev. III. v. vi. 299 Twelve hours of raging cannonade. 1841Elphinstone Hist. Ind. II. 113 A cannonade was kept up on both sides.
fig.1878Huxley Physiogr. 167 A cannonade, more or less sharp, is constantly kept up against the coast.
b. humorously: at billiards.
1844Disraeli Coningsby xii, Where the echoing balls denoted the sweeping hazard or the effective cannonade.
▪ II. cannonade, v.|kænəneɪd|
[f. prec.]
1. trans. To batter or attack with cannon; to discharge cannon against.
a1670Sir J. Turner Mem. (1829) 68 Da. Leslie..cannonading the royall troops, when they came in view of him. 1790Beatson Nav. & Mil. Mem. 221 Throwing shells and cannonading the ships. 1795Monthly Rev. XVII. 569 Let fresh cities be cannonaded into rubbish. 1937W. S. Churchill Great Contemp. 104 The possibility of the German fleet..cannonading Calais.
2. intr. To discharge cannon continuously.
1702Lond. Gaz. No. 3829/3 The Enemy cannonaded all day. 1841Elphinstone Hist. Ind. II. 443 After cannonading for three days..he ordered a general assault.
fig.1886Phelps Burglars in Par. I. 9 The omnibus bobbed and cannonaded through..the streets. |