cannonading
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"His footwork," wrote the Associated Press reporter Whitney Martin, "consists of moving forward in a direct line to a point where he is within cannonading range."
From The Guardian ● Nov. 13, 2012
The significance: no more cannonading clatter on skyscraper frames outside the sleepy urbanite's window; arc welding, where girder steel is melted into a joint by powerful electric current, is silent.
From Time Magazine Archive
One night a fortnight ago the worn men of Major General Alexander Rodintsev's 13th Guards Division crouched in their holes in the northwest district of Stalingrad and listened to sudden thunderous cannonading.
From Time Magazine Archive
When the cannonading was over I took the visitor out into the street again.
From Time Magazine Archive
Later it was learned from some of the prisoners that General Jackson's plan had been to attack with his infantry after the heavy cannonading.
From The Young Sharpshooter at Antietam by Everett T. (Everett Titsworth) Tomlinson
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