单词 | fusillade |
释义 | fusilladen. A simultaneous discharge of firearms; a wholesale execution by this means. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > killing > slaughter > [noun] > instance of > by specific method fusillade1801 mitraillade1815 society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > action of propelling missile > discharge of firearms > [noun] > simultaneous volley1573 salve1577 salvo1591 volley-shot1689 platoon1706 fusillade1801 fusillading1839 1801 Times in Spirit of Public Jrnls. (1802) V. 53 From hence were shot those diavolinis and cardamoms, which have been so much admired for their happy illustration of the mitraille and fusillades. 1813 Duke of Wellington Dispatches (1838) XI. 359 The enemy have a considerable force..and are keeping up a fusillade. 1835 T. B. Macaulay Sir James Mackintosh in Ess. (1887) 336 Then came..revolutionary tribunals, noyades, fusillades. 1863 A. W. Kinglake Invasion of Crimea I. xiv. 267 This wanton fusillade must have been the result of a panic. 1885 Times (Weekly ed.) 16 Oct. 6/2 Notwithstanding the fusillade, no one..appears to have been hurt. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online March 2022). fusilladev. transitive. To assault (a place), to shoot down (persons) by a simultaneous discharge of firearms. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > action of propelling missile > discharge of firearms > fire (a gun) [verb (transitive)] > assail with gunfire > simultaneously fusillade1816 volley1908 1816 R. Southey in Q. Rev. 15 56 A whole corps..were marched apart by one of Stofflet's officers and fusilladed. 1851 T. Carlyle Life J. Sterling i. xiii. 115 Give them shriving if they want it; that done, fusillade them all. 1884 Cent. Mag. 28 560 The Mahdi's adherents fusilladed his palace at Khartoum. Derivatives fusiˈllading n. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > action of propelling missile > discharge of firearms > [noun] > simultaneous volley1573 salve1577 salvo1591 volley-shot1689 platoon1706 fusillade1801 fusillading1839 1839 T. Carlyle Chartism v. 47 Lyons fusilladings,..these..were but a new irrefragable preaching abroad of that. fusiˈllader n. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > warrior > armed man > [noun] > one armed with or using firearm > one bearing or using handgun > by type of shooting hotshot1593 tirailleur1796 sharpshooter1802 sniper1824 pot-shooter1849 fusillader1878 pot-shotter1904 1878 H. M. Stanley Through Dark Continent II. iv. 119 The butcher of women and fusillader of children. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1801v.1816 |
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