α. 1500s– cannonade, 1500s– canonade (now nonstandard), 1600s canonad, 1600s canonnad.
β. 1600s cannonado, 1600s canonado.
单词 | cannonade |
释义 | cannonaden.α. 1500s– cannonade, 1500s– canonade (now nonstandard), 1600s canonad, 1600s canonnad. β. 1600s cannonado, 1600s canonado. 1. A continued discharge of cannon or heavy artillery; an attack using cannon. Also as a mass noun: continuous gunfire, esp. using heavy artillery. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > action of propelling missile > discharge of firearms > management of artillery > [noun] > bombardment battery1548 cannonade1562 cannonading1637 bombarding1687 bomb battery1695 bombardment1702 cannon fire1725 bombard1807 shelling1860 hate1915 barrage1916 box barrage1916 creeping barrage1916 area bombardment1918 area shoot1919 shoot1941 stonk1944 1562 J. Shute tr. in Two Comm. Turcks ii. f. 36v Their aunswere was, with the faire Cannonade, harquebuzade, and suche lyke. 1591 Iournall or Briefe Rep. Seruice in Britaigne by Prince de Dombes 11 The residue of the day wherein this charge was giuen, was spent in slight skirmishes and canonades. 1655 R. Flecknoe Ten Years Trav. 12 Your young gallants of the time..talk of nothing but rampards and parapats, musquetads..and canonads. 1695 T. Brown tr. J. Le Clerc Life Famous Cardinal-Duke de Richlieu I. ii. 218 There ceased not several times Men and Victuals to get in by day and night, traversing the Cannonades of the English. 1769 W. Robertson Hist. Charles V III. viii. 96 A furious canonade. 1776 W. Heath in J. Sparks Corr. Amer. Revol. (1853) I. 333 We could not reduce the fort by cannonade. 1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. III. v. vi. 335 Twelve hours of raging cannonade. 1878 T. H. Huxley Physiography (ed. 2) 167 Atlantic breakers roll in upon the shore... A cannonade, more or less sharp, is constantly kept up against the coast. 1911 Boys' Life Aug. 12/1 Eighteen uneasy men..saw that unforgettable conflict, while the island behind them clattered..to the cannonade. 1965 Life 18 June 44/1 The Syrians protested with artillery cannonades and with complaints to the U.N. Security Council. 1996 Observer 31 Mar. (Review section) 4/5 Lord Peter Hill-Norton unleashed a cannonade of invective, dubbing Michael Portillo a ‘little creep’. 2006 Cruising World May 55/2 Sharon and I..watched incandescent fireworks..accompanied by cannonades that rumbled through the bilge. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > billiards, pool, or snooker > [noun] > actions or types of play > type of stroke hazard1674 carambole1775 carom1779 cannon1802 screw1825 sidestroke1834 following stroke1837 cannonade1844 five-stroke1847 follow1850 scratch1850 fluke1857 jenny1857 bank shot1859 angle shot1860 draw shot1860 six-stroke1861 run-through1862 spot1868 quill1869 dead-stroke1873 loser1873 push1873 push stroke1873 stab1873 stab screw1873 draw1881 force1881 plant1884 anchor cannon1893 massé1901 angle1902 cradle-cannon1907 pot1907 jump shot1909 carry-along1913 snooker1924 1844 B. Disraeli Coningsby II. iv. xii. 166 Where the echoing balls denoted the sweeping hazard or the effective cannonade. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2018; most recently modified version published online December 2021). cannonadev. 1. transitive. To attack with cannon or heavy artillery; to discharge heavy artillery against. Also in extended use. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > action of propelling missile > discharge of firearms > management of artillery > operate (artillery) [verb (transitive)] > bombard ding1548 to lay battery to1548 cannon1567 thunder1590 cannonade1637 bombard1686 bomb1694 shell1827 plonk1874 plaster1914 bump1915 labour1915 water1915 barragea1917 paste1942 stonk1944 1637 R. Monro Exped. Scots Regim. i. 56 The Swedes Admirall..did employ his whole force against the principall Dane shippe,..furiously cannonading her. a1686 J. Turner Mem. (1829) 68 Da. Leslie..cannonading the royall troops, when they came in view of him. 1712 E. Cooke Voy. S. Sea I. i. 11 The Captains Rogers and Courtney reply'd, threatning to cruize among the Islands..and to canonade the Town of Oratavia. 1790 R. Beatson Naval & Mil. Mem. 221 Throwing shells and cannonading the ships. 1813 Cobbett's Polit. Reg. 18 Dec. 787 Six Swedish gun-boats, under the command of Captain Kruger, have cannonaded the town of Stettin. 1896 M. P. Shiel Shapes in Fire 81 Craggy sea-walls, cannonaded and disintegrated by..the torrent currents of the German Ocean. 1937 W. S. Churchill Great Contemp. 104 The possibility of the German fleet..cannonading Calais. 1979 G. R. Kleinfeld & L. A. Tambs Hitler's Spanish Legion viii. 181 He died two days later in the hospital at Grigorovo as the Soviets cannonaded Novgorod. 2004 St. Petersburg (Florida) Times (Nexis) 5 Oct. 1 e British ships cannonaded a Spanish port in the islands. 2. intransitive. To discharge heavy artillery continuously. Also in extended use. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > action of propelling missile > discharge of firearms > management of artillery > operate artillery [verb (intransitive)] > discharge artillery > bombard cannonade1637 to warm the field1705 barragea1917 1637 R. Monro Exped. Scots Regim. ii. xlii. 176 The Commandant spared not his Amunition, but continually Cannonaded amongst us. 1698 tr. Baron de Pointis Acct. taking of Cartagena 88 About Three a Clock, on the Second, they began to Cannonade; in the mean time we put all things into a readiness. 1702 London Gaz. No. 3829/3 The Enemy cannonaded all day. 1785 J. Campbell & J. Kent Biographica Nautica 382 They then cannonaded again. 1841 M. Elphinstone Hist. India II. xi. i. 443 After cannonading for three days..he ordered a general assault. 1886 E. S. Phelps Burglars in Paradise I. 9 The omnibus bobbed and cannonaded through..the streets. 1904 Russo-Japanese War No. 2 244/1 The Second Army had already commenced cannonading from dawn. 1962 Life 7 Dec. 128/1 A tale of 1797 when English frigates cannonaded in full sail and seamen were bloodily flogged. 2003 Independent on Sunday (Nexis) 23 Nov. 7 At its climax, 117 ships 3ft long with dischargeable brass guns cannonaded dreadfully at each other. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2018; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1562v.1637 |
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