cannonadingn.
/ˌkanəˈneɪdɪŋ/, U.S. /ˌkænəˈneɪdɪŋ/ 1. The sustained discharge of cannon or heavy artillery; an instance of this.
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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
1637 R. Monro Exped. Scots Regim. ii. 172 The second night our Batteries being readie, there were mutuall interchanges of Cannonading amongst us.
1683 J. Turner Pallas Armata iii. xxiv. 322 After a furious Cannonading, fill up the Moat..; clap Ladders to the Wall, and..hazzard a storm with probability enough of success.
1704 E. Whitaker in Camden Soc. Misc. (1881) 46 Admirall Byng, who commanded the cannonading.
1777 R. Watson Hist. Reign Philip II I. xii. 386 He began a brisk cannonading.
1814 Niles' Weekly Reg. 24 Sept. 32/1 The enemy..continued the cannonading, bombarding and rocket firing until sunset.
1868 Hist. Mag. June 376/1 They passed through the cannonading of the ships, bombs, chain-shot, ring-shot, &c.
1898 Argosy Aug. 54 At that moment there was a short lull in the cannonading.
1905 H. Newman in E. Candler Unveiling of Lhasa x. 192 Then followed several hours of cannonading and small-arms fire.
1943 R. Tregaskis Guadalcanal Diary iv. 37 A second later I heard the b-rroom-boom of the cannonading.
2016 Sunday Times (Nexis) 29 Nov. (Culture section) 4 The devastation in Dublin city centre following six days of cannonading and conflagration.
2. figurative and in extended use. Sustained verbal or physical pressure.
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1832 T. Carlyle Misc. Ess. (1847) III. 140 Luther, ‘whose words were half battles’, and such half battles as could shake and overset half Europe with their cannonading.
1878 J. Morley Byron in Crit. Misc. 230 No..polemical cannonading can drive away the impalpable darkness of error.
1911 Z. Grey Young Pitcher xvii. 231 Ken kept up his tireless, swift cannonading over the plate, making his opponents hit.
1954 Tel.-Herald (Dubuque, Iowa) 14 Nov. Sometimes we kind of get fed up with the political cannonading that goes on during a political campaign.
1987 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 22 June c3/1 Leach got a fly ball for the third out, the cannonading was ended, things quieted down.
2002 Nation 2 Dec. 16/2 Nader..has resumed with gusto his cannonading of Congress and the establishment.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2018; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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