cannonade

plural cannonades

1. The firing of artillery for a length of time.

   A furious cannonade was kept up from the whole circle of batteries on the devoted town.

   1855–1858, William H[ickling] Prescott, History of the Reign of Philip the Second, King of Spain, volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Boston, Mass.: Phillips, Sampson, and Company, →OCLC

2. figurativelyA loud noise like a cannonade; a booming.

   Not for a regiment's parade, / Nor evil laws or rulers made, / Blue Walden rolls its cannonade, […]

   1867, Ralph Waldo Emerson, “May-Day”, in May-Day and Other Pieces, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor and Fields, →OCLC, page 11

present singular third person cannonades · participle present cannonading · participle past cannonaded · past cannonaded

1. To discharge artillery fire upon.