Definition of "cannonading" [cannonading]

• Present participle of cannonade. (verb)

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• "Between 9.30 P.M. and 11 P.M. the "cannonading" heard on the previous night recommenced."
• "Fort Sumter has returned the fire, and brisk cannonading has been kept up, the correspondent wrote."
• "It's the glimpse of things to come after this record hot July, with a bass chorus of afternoon thunderstorms cannonading down the streets and dry valleys."