[f. CANNON sb. + -RY: cf. musketry, gunnery.]
1. Discharge of cannon, cannonading.
1839–40. W. Irving, Wolfert’s R. (1855), 210. Their columns were ripped up by cannonry; whole rows were swept down at a shot.
1873. Browning, Red Cott. Nt.-cap, 114. Had not the dreadful cannonry drowned all.
2. Artillery, cannon collectively.
1851. Mrs. Browning, Casa Guidi Wind., II. Long live the Duke!—how roared the cannonry!
3. nonce-use. Cannoneers as a force.
1866. Ruskin, Crown Wild Olive, 210. You may have to call yourselves ‘Cannonry’ instead of chivalry.
