cannonading

That’s the chatter of small-arms fire, compared to the heavy cannonading already chipping away at Hillary Clinton’s battlements.

Lava bombs cannonading down on the stricken city.

"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."

If the shot was returned, it came back as a limp floater, setting up Graf's cannonading forehand.

Until shortly after midnight, that is, when cops, diverted by assignments like suppressing baseball games and dangerous radicals, are ill-equipped to suppress the evening "cannonading."