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  1.  trans. To batter or attack with cannon; to discharge cannon against.

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a. 1670.  Sir J. Turner, Mem. (1829), 68. Da. Leslie … cannonading the royall troops, when they came in view of him.

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1790.  Beatson, Nav. & Mil. Mem., 221. Throwing shells and cannonading the ships.

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1795.  Monthly Rev., XVII. 569. Let fresh cities be cannonaded into rubbish.

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  2.  intr. To discharge cannon continuously.

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1702.  Lond. Gaz., No. 3829/3. The Enemy cannonaded all day.

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1841.  Elphinstone, Hist. Ind., II. 443. After cannonading for three days … he ordered a general assault.

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  fig.  1886.  Phelps, Burglars in Par., I. 9. The omnibus bobbed and cannonaded through … the streets.

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