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.
Fig.; A loud noise like a cannonade; a booming. Blue Walden rolls its cannonade. Ewerson.
To attack with heavy artillery; to batter with cannon shot.
To discharge cannon; as, the army cannonaded all day.
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