Word Meanings - CANNONADE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. 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. A furious cannonade was kept up from the whole circle

Additional info about word: CANNONADE

1. 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. A furious cannonade was kept up from the whole circle of batteries on the devoted towm. Prescott. 2. Fig.; A loud noise like a cannonade; a booming. Blue Walden rolls its cannonade. Ewerson.

Related words: (words related to CANNONADE)

• SHELL-LESS
  , a. Having no shell. J. Burroughs.
• CIRCLED
  Having the form of a circle; round. "Monthly changes in her circled orb." Shak.
• PURPOSELESS
  Having no purpose or result; objectless. Bp. Hall. -- Pur"pose*less*ness, n.
• DESTROYABLE
  Destructible. Plants . . . scarcely destroyable by the weather. Derham.
• CANNON BONE
  See BONE
• SHELLER
  One who, or that which, shells; as, an oyster sheller; a corn sheller.
• BATTERING-RAM
  1. An engine used in ancient times to beat down the walls of besieged places. Note: It was a large beam, with a head of iron, which was sometimes made to resemble the head of a ram. It was suspended by ropes t a beam supported by posts, and so
• THROW
  Pain; especially, pain of travail; throe. Spenser. Dryden.
• PURPOSE
  1. That which a person sets before himself as an object to be reached or accomplished; the end or aim to which the view is directed in any plan, measure, or exertion; view; aim; design; intention; plan. He will his firste purpos modify. Chaucer.
• THROWING
  a. & n. from Throw, v. Throwing engine, Throwing mill, Throwing table, or Throwing wheel , a machine on which earthenware is first rudely shaped by the hand of the potter from a mass of clay revolving rapidly on a disk or table carried
• WHOLENESS
  The quality or state of being whole, entire, or sound; entireness; totality; completeness.
• CANNONADE
  1. 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. A furious cannonade was kept up from the whole circle
• WHOLE-HOOFED
  Having an undivided hoof, as the horse.
• THROW-OFF
  A start in a hunt or a race.
• SHELLAPPLE
  See SHELDAFLE
• SHELLPROOF
  Capable of resisting bombs or other shells; bombproof.
• WHOLESALE
  1. Pertaining to, or engaged in, trade by the piece or large quantity; selling to retailers or jobbers rather than to consumers; as, a wholesale merchant; the wholesale price. 2. Extensive and indiscriminate; as, wholesale slaughter. "A time for
• FURIOUS
  1. Transported with passion or fury; raging; violent; as, a furious animal. 2. Rushing with impetuosity; moving with violence; as, a furious stream; a furious wind or storm. Syn. -- Impetuous; vehement; boisterous; fierce; turbulent; tumultuous;
• CANNONEER; CANNONIER
  A man who manages, or fires, cannon.
• THROWER
  One who throws. Specifically: One who throws or twists silk; a throwster. One who shapes vessels on a throwing engine.
• GOROON SHELL
  A large, handsome, marine, univalve shell .
• RECONTINUANCE
  The act or state of recontinuing.
• BUNSEN'S BATTERY; BUNSEN'S BURNER
  See BURNER
• VALVE-SHELL
  Any fresh-water gastropod of the genus Valvata.
• SPOUTSHELL
  Any marine gastropod shell of the genus Apporhais having an elongated siphon. See Illust. under Rostrifera.
• SLIT-SHELL
  Any species of Pleurotomaria, a genus of beautiful, pearly, spiral gastropod shells having a deep slit in the outer lip. Many fossil species are known, and a few living ones are found in deep water in tropical seas.
• SELF-DESTROYER
  One who destroys himself; a suicide.
• MASK SHELL
  Any spiral marine shell of the genus Persona, having a curiously twisted aperture.
• MISTHROW
  To throw wrongly.
• TONGUE-SHELL
  Any species of Lingula.
• UNSHELL
  To strip the shell from; to take out of the shell; to hatch.
• TORPEDO-BOAT DESTROYER
  A larger, swifter, and more powerful armed type of torpedo boat, originally intended principally for the destruction of torpedo boats, but later used also as a more formidable torpedo boat.