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▪ I. volley, n.|ˈvɒlɪ|
Forms: α. 6 volée, volee, (valee), vole, 7 vollee, volle. β. 6 vallew, 6–7 volue. γ. 6–8 vollie (6 vallie, Sc. wollie), 7 volie, 7–9 pl. vollies; 6 voly, 6–7 volly, 7 Ir. voylly. δ. 6–7 voley, 7 wolley, valley, 6– volley.
[ad. F. volée (12th c. in Godef. Compl.), = Pr. and Sp. volada, It. volata:—Romanic volāta, fem. n. f. L. volātus, pa. pple. of volāre to fly.
The spellings volue, vallew, are prob. on the analogy of venue, vinew beside veny, vinny.]
1. a. A simultaneous discharge of a number of firearms or artillery; a salvo.
α1587Holinshed Chron. III. 1219/2 The whole fire began to plaie in such sort, that within foure volées both sides of the house were battered through. 1591Garrard's Art Warre 48 They must abide at ye least a volee of Canons.
γ1573Satir. Poems Reform. xxxix. 93 For ordinance thay dung at day and nycht By weirlyk volyis. a1578Lindesay (Pitscottie) Chron. Scot. (S.T.S.) I. 143 The king..commandit to charge all the gunnis to gif the castell ane new wollie. 1617Moryson Itin. ii. 163 The enemy played all the night upon them with great vollyes, but hurt onely three men. 1688Holme Armoury iii. xix. (Roxb.) 214/2 In grand Battalia's or feild service the souldier fires by Vollies or as some terme it, by Salves of shot. 1700S. L. tr. Fryke's Voy. E. Ind. 318 A Dutch Company that conducted us out of Town gave three Vollies and went back again. 1745P. Thomas Jrnl. Anson's Voy. 282 We then kept a continual Fire upon her of both great and small Arms, not firing in set Broadsides and Vollies. 1826J. F. Cooper Mohicans (1829) I. viii. 101 Rifles which sent their leaden messengers across the rock in vollies.
δ1591in Lyly's Works (1902) I. 440 But from the Snailmount and the Ship-Ile in the Pond..there was a long volley of Chambers discharged. 1600E. Blount tr. Conestaggio 203 They forced the gallions with a fewe volleies. 1625Markham Souldiers Accid. 9 Let the first Ranke onely giue their volley,..and the second to passe through it, and so giue their volley. 1662J. Davies tr. Olearius' Voy. Ambass. 169 We made some stay before the City,..and saluted it with a Volley both of all our great Guns, and of small shot. 1719De Foe Crusoe i. (Globe) 304 We were by this Method able to fire six Volleys, half of us at a Time. 1817J. Scott Paris Revisit. (ed. 4) 293 A loud coarse laugh burst out from each,—united as a volley of musquetry, and ending as abruptly. 1844H. H. Wilson Brit. India II. 219 After firing a volley, the troops charged and put the enemy to the rout. 1879Browning Martin Relph 103 They level: a volley, a smoke and the clearing of smoke.
b. Const. of (shot, etc.).
α1583T. Stocker Civ. Warres Lowe C. iii. 83 b, The valee of an 150. Canon shot. 1590Sir J. Smyth Disc. Weapons 12 If our..Mosquettiers would give their volees of Mosquet shot uppon these shipboates full of men. 1623in Foster Eng. Factories Ind. (1908) II. 231 At his putting into the grave 3 volles of smale shotte.
β1579Digges Stratiot. 105 These Troupes..hauing deliuered their Volue of Shot, shall marche away. c1595Capt. Wyatt Dudley's Voy. (Hakl. Soc.) 19 Givinge whole vallews of shott at our meetinge. Ibid. 45 Wyatt..receaved his Generall with a vallew of small shott.
γ1584Lyly Campaspe v. iii. 37 There is more pleasure in tuning of voyce, then in a volly of shotte. 1599Dallam in Early Voy. Levant (Hakl. Soc.) 59 Betwyxte everie greate shott a vallie of smale shott. 1650R. Stapylton Strada's Low C. Wars vii. 76 A great joy expressed by three Vollyes of shot, and the cheerfull sound of Drums. a1660Contemp. Hist. Irel. (Ir. Archæol. Soc.) I. 261 The relife gaue a voylly of foure score shott amonge them. a1700Evelyn Diary 8 Oct. 1641, From whence we received many vollies of shot in compliment to my Lord Marshall.
δ1591Raleigh Last Fight Revenge (Arb.) 20 After many enterchanged voleies of..small shot. 1604T. Wright Passions v. §4. 192 Resembling a volley of shot speedily deliuered. 1625in Ellis Orig. Lett. Ser. i. III. 199 Which gave her a volley of fifteen hundred great shot. 1725De Foe Voy. round World i. 143 His Men fell..as flat to the Ground, as if they had been Shot to Death with a Volley of our Shot. 1748Anson's Voyage ii. v. 186 He fired a volley of small shot between the masts. 1803Scott Let. in Lockhart (1837) I. xi. 390 A volley of small shot fired through the window. 1847James Convict xvi, Another volley of shot rang from behind the gateway of the town.
c. transf. (spec. in Physiol.), fig., and in fig. context. Also without article (quot. 1749); cf. next.
1629H. Burton Truth's Triumph 232 Thus haue we..spent a small volley vpon the Pontifician forces. 1738Mrs. Delany Life & Corr. (1861) II. 15 Every one was pleased with your..compliments, and volleys have been shot off in return this afternoon, when I said I was coming to my room to write to you. 1749Smollett Regicide iii. viii, I will pour My vengeance in full volley; and the earth Shall dread to yield you succour or resource! 1749Fielding Tom Jones ix. v, She discharged a volley of small charms at once from her whole countenance in a smile. 1817Byron Beppo xlv, Large black eyes that flash on you a volley Of rays. 1836–7Dickens Sk. Boz, Scenes xii, Ginger-beer corks go off in volleys. 1928Jrnl. Physiol. LXV 276 The rhythmic discharge is due to a more or less synchronous activity in a large number of the optic nerve fibres. The different ganglion cells have given up their usual independent fire of impulses and have taken to firing volleys. 1968Brit. Med. Bull. XXIV. 253/2 Small localised changes in cortical potential, such as may follow the arrival of a sensory volley from the periphery, are completely lost in the background of much larger voltages produced by the rest of the cortical surface.
†d. in volley, by simultaneous firing. Obs.—1
1598Barret Theor. Warres iii. i. 42 There is yet another order of discharging of troupes of Muskets in vollie.
e. Mining. ‘The act of exploding blasts in sections.’
1895Funk's Stand. Dict.
2. a. A shower or simultaneous flight of many missile weapons, as arrows, stones, etc. Also in fig. context.
1598Barret Theor. Warres i. i. 3 Our bowmen may shoot by vollies, as thick as hayle. 1611Speed Hist. Gt. Brit. vi. xiv. §11. 91 The Britaines..auoided the volue of the Romans, showring downe withall great store of theirs vpon them. 1667Milton P.L. vi. 213 Over head the dismal hiss Of fiery Darts in flaming volies flew. 1697Dryden æneid i. 215 Stones and brands in rattling volleys fly. 1808Scott Marm. vi. xxxiv, The English shafts in volleys hail'd. 1820― Abbot xviii, Even thus fly all your shafts.., but a breath of foolish affection ever crosses in the mid volley, and sways the arrow from the mark.
b. Const. of.
1590Sir J. Smyth Disc. Weapons 31 b, The Archers with their volees of arrowes did breake both horsmen and footmen. 1600Holland Livy xxviii. xxxvi. 696 The Romans..at the first onset and volie of shot..put them to flight. 1625Bacon Apophth. §126 It was told him, that the enemie had such volleyes of arrowes, that they did hide the Sunne. 1686tr. Chardin's Trav. Persia 210 The People..ply'd the Top of the Mosque with..Volleys of Stones. 1734tr. Rollin's Anc. Hist. (1827) I. 345 Numerous volleys of arrows and stones. 1788Gibbon Decl. & F. xlvi. IV. 520 Their engines discharged a perpetual volley of stones and darts. 1850Marsden Early Purit. (1853) 437 The mob rushed upon them with a volley of stones.
c. poet. A storm or shower of hail, rain, etc.
1737Gentl. Mag. VII. 630 Wintry clouds, Surcharg'd with vollies of tumultuous hail, Or stores of sounding rain. 1784Cowper Task v. 141 The gloomy clouds find weapons, arrowy sleet, Skin-piercing volley, blossom-bruising hail.
†3.
a. A company or troop of birds, etc., in flight; a flight. Obs. rare.
1601Dolman La Primaud. Fr. Acad. (1618) III. 760 The ringe doues are seene to come euery yeere in great vollies ouer the sea. Ibid. 843 Birdes of prey doe not flie togither in vollies or troopes. 1610G. Fletcher Christ's Vict. ii. lxi, But to their Lord, now musing in his thought, A heavenly volie of light Angels flew.
†b. A crowd or large number of persons or things. Obs.
1595Daniel Civil Wars v. cvii, Therefore easily great Sommerset..With all the vollie of disgraces met. 1639Fuller Holy War ii. xxxvii. 94 King Almerick himself wearied with whole volleys of miseries, ended his life of a bloudy flux. a1656Ussher Ann. vi. (1658) 564 The Souldiers..finding their return intercepted by a valley of Archers. 1693Humours Town 27 The Vollies of Duns, of believing Vintners, Tailors, Sempstresses.
4. a. An uttering or outpouring of numerous words, oaths, shouts, etc., in smart or rapid succession. Also without const.
1590Nashe Pasquil's Apol. i. C ij b, He giues vs a voley of Scriptures against Non Residents. 1591Shakes. Two Gent. ii. iv. 30 A fine volly of words, gentlemen, & quickly shot off. 1620[G. Brydges] Horæ Subs. 455 Whatsoeuer by them is performed, shall be sure to finde whole vollies of praises. 1647N. Ward Simple Cobler (1843) 54, I am resolved..to storme you with volyes of Love and Loyalty. 1649Milton Eikon. x. Wks. 1851 III. 412 Those thousands of blaspheming Cavaliers about him, whose mouthes let fly Oaths and Curses by the voley. 1710Steele & Addison Tatler No. 254 ⁋5 We heard a Volley of Oaths and Curses, lasting for a long while. 1779Sheridan St. Patrick's Day i. i, Let him have our grievances in a volley. 1782F. Burney Cecilia v. vii, [He] poured forth..a volley of compliments. 1820W. Irving Sketch Bk. I. 64 This, however, always produced a fresh volley from his wife. 1847Illustr. Lond. News 2 Oct. 219/2 Between them continuous volleys of what is called ‘chaff’ were kept up. 1874L. Carr J. Gwynne I. v. 163 A volley of dire anathemas against those scoundrelly insurance chaps.
b. Similarly of sighs, groans, cheers, laughter, etc. Also without const.
1589Greene Tullies Love Wks. (Grosart) VII. 189 After a vole of broken sighes tempered with some teares, hee fell a sleepe. 1640Sandys Christs Passion iv. 270 Cries Of weeping Women, in lowd Vollies rise. 1648Crashaw Music's Duel 63 A Throng Of short thicke sobs, whose thundring volleyes float..In panting murmurs. 1727Gay Begg. Op. i. xii, What vollies of sighs are sent from the windows of Holborn. 1786tr. Beckford's Vathek (1868) 103 They burst out into volleys of laughter. 1877Talmage Serm. 334 Let this religion of Christ go down under a volley of merriment. 1882B. D. W. Ramsay Recoll. Mil. Serv. II. xv. 65 Giving a volley of British cheers.
c. A succession of words of command rapidly or smartly delivered.
1796Instr. & Reg. Cavalry (1813) 27 The repetition of them by every other individual concerned, must not be strictly successive, but as much as can be in a volley.
†5. at (the or a) volley, on (or o') the volley, at random, without consideration. Usu. with verbs, esp. speak. Obs.
After F. à la volée.
(a)1578H. Wotton Courtlie Controv. 252 The king..they knew loued hir feruently,..although it were begun at the volue. 1596Harington Metam. Ajax Apol. Aa vj b, The sundrie censures I shoulde incurre, by letting such a pamphlet fly abroad at such a time, when euerything is taken at the voley. c1620Z. Boyd Zion's Flowers (1855) 125 Like those who speake at random at a voleye. 1625B. Jonson Staple of N. iv. i, 'Tis like a Ball at Tennis..When we doe speak at volley, all the ill we can one of another. 1686F. Spence tr. St. Euvremont's Misc. Pref., Otherwise we cannot lay hold of him, he speaks at volley and universally. [1820Scott Monast. xvii, I have always known you..prompt to speak at the volley and without reflection.]
(b)1629Massinger Picture iii. vi, What we spake on the voley begins to work. 1630B. Jonson New Inn i vi, You must not giue credit To all that Ladies publiquely professe, Or talke, o'th vollee, vnto their seruants. 1831Fraser's Mag. Sept. 161/1 He never speaks ‘on the voley’ (that is to say, at random).
6. a. Real Tennis. The flight of a ball in play before it has touched the ground. Cf. fly n.2 2 b.
1596Nashe Saffron Walden To Rdr. 24 One that stands, as it were, at the line in a Tennis-court, and takes euerie ball at the volly. 1878Marshall Ann. Tennis 112 He frequently takes a difficult service (at the volley) off the pent⁓house.
b. Real Tennis, Lawn Tennis, Cricket, etc. A return stroke or hit at a ball before it has touched the ground; the action of so returning the ball. (Cf. half-volley half- II. i.)
1851J. Pycroft Cricket Field v. 79 At Woolwich he hit a volley to long field for nine. 1862Temple Bar VI. 282 [Mr. Budd] is said to have hit a volley to long-field for nine. 1884Marshall's Tennis Cuts 124 The match was..loudly applauded every now and then by the spectators, when a brilliant volley was called, or a smash was declared. 1902Sat. Rev. 12 July 51/1 Instruction is given in the underhand volley [in lawn-tennis].
c. = volleyer.
1878Marshall Ann. Tennis 112 He was a powerful force, and a capital volley.
7. attrib. and Comb., as volley-boast, volley loophole, † volley-shot, volley system; volley-ball, volleyball orig. U.S., a game in which a ball is struck from alternate sides of a high net without touching the ground (Cent. Dict. Suppl.); also attrib.; also, the ball used in this game; volley-firing, simultaneous firing at the word of command by successive parties of soldiers; also fig.; volley gun, a form of machine-gun which fires bullets successively or in a volley (Knight, 1884).
1896Physical Education V. 50/1 Mr. W. G. Morgan of Holyoke, Mass., has developed a game..which is called *Volley Ball... The play consists in keeping a ball in motion over a high net,..thus partaking of the character of two games,—tennis and hand ball. 1936P. Fleming News from Tartary vii. i. 325 In the evening we played tennis with the Russians, or football or volley-ball with the Hunza guard. 1949Dziennik Zwiazkowy (Chicago) 19 Nov. 6/3 Last year two of our volleyball teams finished in a tie for second place. 1976Milton Keynes Express 4 June 39/7 Stoke Mandeville has told the club that any money raised for them will be used to purchase table tennis nets and volleyballs for the National Spinal Injuries Centre.
1878Marshall Ann. Tennis 197 He..would generally return it by a *volley-boast against the main-wall.
1859Musketry Instr. 62 Every file is to have its own target, and the hits are to be counted as in *volley firing. 1879Cassell's Techn. Educ. III. 267 The superior efficacy of volley-firing and reserved fire. 1891Daily News 2 Oct. 5/5 In the..Town Hall of Newcastle the representative fighting men of the Liberal party were assembled for volley firing.
1898Sir G. S. Robertson Chitral xxiii. 225 *Volley loopholes are good against an enemy that attacks with a masterful rush.
1689Lond. Gaz. No. 2433/3 The Night concluded with Dancing, Bells Ringing, Bonfires, *Volly-shots. 1702Ibid. No. 3793/3 The 2 Companies of Foot..gave a Volley Shot at each Proclamation.
1899Westm. Gaz. 15 Sept. 2/3 There has for some time been a feeling in the air that the *volley system was going.
▪ II. volley, v.|ˈvɒlɪ|
Forms: 7 volly (8–9 pa. tense vollied); 6– volley.
[f. prec.]
1. trans.
a. To utter (words, etc.) rapidly or impetuously. Usually with advs., as forth, off, out.
1591Troub. Raigne K. John i. (1611) 62 A prophet new sprung up, whose diuination volleis wonders foorth. Ibid. ii. 73 If sobs would helpe,..My heart should volley out deepe piercing plaints. 1593Shakes. Ven. & Ad. 921 Another flapmouthd mourner, blacke, and grim, Against the welkin volies out his voyce. 1754P. H. Hiberniad 37 She raves, and vollies off an horrid Cry. 1824Scott St. Ronan's xx, The bursts of applause which were vollied towards the stage. 1859Meredith R. Feverel xxxviii, Sir Julius turned one heel, and volleyed out silver laughter. 1885–94R. Bridges Eros & Psyche Aug. xii, She saw an uncouth form..whose parted lips Volley'd their friendly warning in a storm.
b. To discharge (arrows, shot, etc.) in a volley.
Cf. volleyed ppl. a. 3.
1839Bailey Festus 139 When the storm bends his bow, And volleys all his arrows off at once.
c. Tennis, etc. To return (a ball) in play before it touches the ground; to reply to (a service) in this way. Also, Assoc. Football, to kick (the ball) before it touches the ground; to score (a goal) in this way.
1875‘Stonehenge’ Brit. Rur. Sports (ed. 12) iii. i. v. 690/1 The service must not be volleyed. 1878[see 2 b]. 1902Sat. Rev. 12 July 51/2 It is bad policy to give the advice not to volley a lob. 1909in Webster. 1972G. Green Great Moments in Sport: Soccer viii. 85 He vollied [sic] in Bowen's clever lob with half an hour left. 1976Scotsman 25 Nov. 25/1 In 52 minutes Somner volleyed a goal from McQuade's cross. 1976Norwich Mercury 10 Dec., It was he who provided the perfect pass for Mann to volley the ball against the St. Andrews crossbar before the interval.
d. Cricket. To bowl or deliver (a ball) which reaches the batsman before bouncing. ? U.S.
1909Cent. Dict. Suppl.
e. To fire a volley or volleys at.
1908Hardy Dynasts III. vii. ii. 489 Kempt's brigade..volleys murderously Donzelot's columns..and repulses them.
2. absol.
a. To fire a volley (or volleys). Also in fig. context.
Common in 19th-cent. journalistic use, prob. after quot. 1854.
1606Shakes. Ant. & Cl. ii. vii. 119 Then the Boy shall sing, The holding euery man shall beate as loud, As his strong sides can volly. 1854Tennyson Charge Light Brigade v, Cannon behind them Volley'd and thunder'd. 1899Westm. Gaz. 2 Jan. 2/1 A large line of guerillas..decided swiftly that their presence and position were discovered, and swiftly they volleyed.
b. Tennis, etc. To hit or return the ball before it bounces; to make a volley-stroke.
1819in Hone Every-day Bk. (1825) I. 867 He never volleyed [i.e. at fives], but let the balls hop. 1878Marshall Ann. Tennis 197 A young player, if he fancies he can volley well, will always be apt to volley balls which would come well off the end-walls. 1892Pall Mall G. 20 July 7/2 F. Rooke..volleyed more effectively than his opponent.
3. intr.
a. To emit or produce sounds simultaneously or continuously, in a manner suggestive of firearms or artillery.
In 19th-cent. use freq. in ‘to volley and thunder’, after quot. 1854 in sense 2 a.
1810Southey Kehama xxiii. xi, When its thunder broke,..while it vollied round the vault of Hell, Earth's solid arch was shaken with the shock. 1875L. Morris Children Street i, Every day come they there, Afternoon foul or fair, Shouting and volleying. 1886Stevenson Kidnapped xxix, For some time Alan volleyed upon the door, and his knocking only roused the echoes of the house.
b. To rush, roll, or stream with simultaneous motion; to shoot rapidly.
1853C. Brontë Villette vii, About a hundred thoughts volleyed through my mind in a moment. 1880Blackmore Mary Anerley I. x. 129 The crest of the wave volleys up the incline.
c. To issue or be discharged in, or after the manner of, a volley.
1887Bowen æneid i. 150 Firebrands fly, stones volley, the weapons furnished of wrath. Ibid. iii. 577 Molten masses of stone to the skies with a groan and a roar Volley in showers.
▪ III. volley
southern dial. var. follow v. |