vbl. sb. The action of the prec. vb.; the sustained discharge of cannon.
1704. E. Whitaker, in Camden Soc. Misc. (1881), 46. Admirall Byng, who commanded the cannonading.
1777. Watson, Philip II. (1839), 245. He began a brisk cannonading.
fig. 1878. Morley, Crit. Misc., Ser. I. Byron, 230. No fiercest polemical cannonading can drive away the impalpable darkness of error.
