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cannonry - definition and meaning
Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
noun noun
from The Century Dictionary.
noun
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
noun
from Wiktionary , Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
noun Cannons , collectively; battery of cannons .noun firing of cannons.
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You may be true knights yet, though perhaps not _equites_; you may have to call yourselves 'cannonry ' instead of 'chivalry,' but that is no reason why you should not call yourselves true men.
The Crown of Wild Olive also Munera Pulveris; Pre-Raphaelitism; Aratra Pentelici; The Ethics of the Dust; Fiction, Fair and Foul; The Elements of Drawing John Ruskin 1859
An occasional flash of lightning lit up the trees and the winding road, and the cannonry of the skies rolled and echoed overhead.
Windy McPherson's Son Sherwood Anderson 1908
Suddenly there was no one to be seen near me; the noise of muskets, the roar of cannonry , red flashes in the fog in front -- that was all, as I stood panting and dazed.
Hugh Wynne, Free Quaker 1871
"Take care of him, Jack," said I, and went away down the crumbled slope and through the broken abatis, while overhead the bombs howled with unearthly noises and the cannonry broke out anew.
Hugh Wynne, Free Quaker 1871
At this instant cannonry thundered out to north, and a rocket rose in air.
Hugh Wynne, Free Quaker 1871
There was now and then an explosion, like a burst of cannonry afar off, and the crash of a falling tree.
The Crayon Papers Washington Irving 1821
Their columns were ripped up by cannonry ; whole rows were swept down at a shot; the survivors closed their ranks, and stood firm.
The Crayon Papers Washington Irving 1821
The moon was shining brightly in a clear night sky, but “the flash and roar of cannonry from opposite points and the bursting of bombshells high in the air so engaged and diverted the attention of the enemy that the detachment had reached the summit about eight o’clock without being heard or perceived.”
Angel in the Whirlwind Benson Bobrick 1997
The moon was shining brightly in a clear night sky, but “the flash and roar of cannonry from opposite points and the bursting of bombshells high in the air so engaged and diverted the attention of the enemy that the detachment had reached the summit about eight o’clock without being heard or perceived.”
Angel in the Whirlwind Benson Bobrick 1997
This is the kind of loose cannonry (is that a word WBS, like changery or leadery?
Irish Blogs 2009
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