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Definition of Cannonry
1. n. Cannon, collectively; artillery.
Definition of Cannonry
1. Noun. Cannons, collectively; battery of cannons. ¹
2. Noun. The firing of cannons. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Cannonry
1. artillery [n -RIES] - See also: artillery
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cannonry
Literary usage of Cannonry
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Brief Memoir Explanatory of a New Trace of a Front of Fortification in Place by William Henry Chase (1846)
"Its advantages are economy and great capacity of the earth rampart to resist the
effects of cannonry. Its disadvantages are that it offers greater facility ..."
2. Liberty's Triumph: A Poem by Robert Wharton Landis (1849)
"... the foe the cannonry. But Gunby, free by Webster's swift recoil, Wheels to
his left on Stuart, who pursues The flying Second regiment, and the fray Now ..."
3. Collected Poems by Alfred Noyes (1913)
"... laborious path, Accepted her suave plea, and with all speed Pressed on his
huge emprise until it seemed His coasts groaned with grim bulks of cannonry, ..."
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