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cannoˈnading, vbl. n.
The action of the prec. vb.; the sustained discharge of cannon.
1704E. Whitaker in Camden Soc. Misc. (1881) 46 Admirall Byng, who commanded the cannonading. 1777Watson Philip II (1839) 245 He began a brisk cannonading.
fig.1878Morley Crit. Misc., Byron 230 No..polemical cannonading can drive away the impalpable darkness of error. |