Definition of "cannonry" [can•non•ry]

• A battery of cannons; artillery. (noun)
• Artillery fire. (noun)

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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."
• "An occasional flash of lightning lit up the trees and the winding road, and the cannonry of the skies rolled and echoed overhead."
• "At this instant cannonry thundered out to north, and a rocket rose in air."