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Meanings of drumfire in English

Intense and continuous artillery fire.

Synonyms
Examples for "cannonade"
Examples for "cannonade"
1
All the time the continuous cannonade going on sounded in their ears.
The Three Admirals
2
The cries of the sufferers muffled the sound of a formidable cannonade.
The New Book of Martyrs
3
Maguire burnt the suburbs outside the town, and answered the cannonade hotly.
With Frederick the Great: A Story of the Seven Years' War
4
But the cannonade to which the advancing troops were exposed was terrible.
With Buller in Natal, Or, a Born Leader
5
And the dishes reeled upon the table under a cannonade of blows.
The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition, Vol. 01
Usage of drumfire in English
1
Even while Frank Sheldon spoke, the artillery of the enemy took on a deeper note until it reached the intensity of drumfire.
Army Boys in the French Trenches; Or, Hand to Hand Fighting with...
2
"A drumfire would be more welcome!"
Men in War
Drumfire through the time