Definition of cannonade Cannonade
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NounPlural: cannonades |
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| cannonade - intense and continuous artillery fire | ||
| drumfire | ||
| artillery fire, cannon fire fire delivered by artillery | ||
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| cannonade - attack with cannons or artillery | ||
| assail, attack attack someone physically or emotionally; "The mugger assaulted the woman"; "Nightmares assailed him regularly" | ||
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Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- cannonade (n.)
The act of discharging cannon and throwing ball, shell, etc., for the purpose of destroying an army, or battering a town, ship, or fort; -- usually, an attack of some continuance. - cannonade (n.)
Fig.; A loud noise like a cannonade; a booming. - cannonade (imp. & p. p.)
of Cannonade - cannonade (v. t.)
To attack with heavy artillery; to batter with cannon shot. - cannonade (v. i.)
To discharge cannon; as, the army cannonaded all day.
OmegaWiki DictionaryOmegaWiki Dictionary Ω
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cannonade
An intense and prolonged artillery fire.
Marine DictionaryUniversal Dictionary of the Marine ⚓️
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cannonade
as a term of the marine, may be defined the application of artillery to the purposes of naval war, or the direction of its efforts against some distant object intended to be seized or destroyed, as a ship, battery, or fortress.Cannonading is therefore used in a vessel of war to take, sink, or burn the enemy’s ships, or to drive them from their defences ashore, and to batter and ruin their fortifications.Since a large man of war may be considered as a combination of floating batteries, it is evident that the efforts of her artillery must in general be greatly superior to those of a fortress on the sea-coast: I say in general, because on some particular occasions her situation may be extremely dangerous, and her cannonading ineffectual. Her superiority consists in several circumstances, as, the power of bringing her different batteries to converge to one point; of shifting the line of her attack so as to do the greatest possible execution against the enemy; or to lie where she will be the least exposed to his shot: and chiefly because, by employing a much greater number of cannon against a fort than it can possibly return, the impression of her artillery against stone-walls soon, becomes decisive and irresistible. Besides these advantages in the attack, she is also greatly superior in point of defence: because the cannon shot passing with rapidity through her sides, seldom do any execution out of the line of their flight, or occasion much mischief by their splinters: whereas they very soon shatter and destroy the faces of a parapet, and produce incredible havoc amongst the men, by the fragments of the stones, &c. A ship may also retreat when she finds it too dangerous to remain longer exposed to the enemy’s fire, or when her own fire cannot produce the desired effect. Finally, the fluctuating situation of a ship, and of the element on which she rests, renders the efforts of bombs very uncertain, and altogether destroys the effect of the ricochet, or rolling and bounding shot, whose execution is so pernicious and destructive in a fortress or land-engagement; both of which, however, a ship may apply with great success. See RANGE.The chief inconveniency to which a ship is exposed, on the contrary, is, that the low-laid cannon in a fort near the brink of the sea, may strike her repeatedly, on or under the surface of the water, so as to sink her before her cannonade can have any considerable efficacy.
Sailor's Word-BookThe Sailor's Word-Book ⛵
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cannonade
The opening and continuance of the fire of artillery on any object attacked. Battering with cannon-shot.
Military DictionaryMilitary Dictionary and Gazetteer 💥
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cannonade
The act of discharging shot or shells from cannon for the purpose of destroying an army, or battering a town, ship, or fort; usually applied to an attack of some continuance.
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🔤- cannonade, verb, present, 1st person singular of cannonade (infinitive).
- cannonade, verb (infinitive).
- cannonade, noun, singular of cannonades.
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