| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Verb | 1. Present participle conjugation of the verb cannonade.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Base (cannonade) | 1. Attack with cannons or artillery.[Wordnet]. 2. To attack with heavy artillery; to batter with cannon shot.[Websters]. 3. To discharge cannon; as, the army cannonaded all day.[Websters]. 4. Of Cannonade.[Websters]. 5. Base verb from the following inflections: cannonading, cannonaded, cannonades, cannonader, cannonaders, cannonadingly and cannonadedly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
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Date "CANNONADING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1759. (references) |
Specialty Definition: cannonade
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Noah Webster | 1: [Noun] The act of discharging cannon and throwing balls, for the purpose of destroying an army, or battering a town, ship or fort. The term usually implies an attack of some continuance.. | 2: [Verb] To attack with heavy artillery; to throw balls, or other deadly weapons, as chain-shot or langrage, against an enemys army, town, fortress or ship; to batter with cannon shot.. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary. | |
| Wiktionary | 1: [Noun] Firing artillery in a large amount for a length of time . (references) | 2: [Verb] To discharge artillery fire. (references) | |
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