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CANNON FIRE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Fire delivered by artillery
Synonyms:
artillery fire; cannon fire
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("cannon fire" is a kind of...):
fire; firing (the act of firing weapons or artillery at an enemy)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "cannon fire"):
cannonade; drumfire (intense and continuous artillery fire)
high-angle fire (fire from a cannon that is fired at an elevation greater than that for the maximum range)
mortar fire (artillery fire delivered by a mortar)
zone fire (artillery or mortar fire delivered in a constant direction at several quadrant elevations)
