<noun.act> our fusillade from the left flank caught them by surprise
a tennis return made by hitting the ball before it bounces
<noun.act> [ verb ]
be dispersed in a volley
<verb.motion> gun shots volleyed at the attackers
hit before it touches the ground
<verb.contact> volley the tennis ball
discharge in, or as if in, a volley
<verb.contact> the attackers volleyed gunshots at the civilians
make a volley
<verb.competition>
utter rapidly
<verb.communication> volley a string of curses
Volley \Vol"ley\, v. i. 1. To be thrown out, or discharged, at once; to be discharged in a volley, or as if in a volley; to make a volley or volleys. --Tennyson.
2. (a) (Tennis) To return the ball before it touches the ground. (b) (Cricket) To send the ball full to the top of the wicket. --R. A. Proctor.
Volley \Vol"ley\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Volleyed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Volleying}.] To discharge with, or as with, a volley.
Volley \Vol"ley\, n.; pl. {Volleys}. [F. vol['e]e; flight, a volley, or discharge of several guns, fr. voler to fly, L. volare. See {Volatile}.] 1. A flight of missiles, as arrows, bullets, or the like; the simultaneous discharge of a number of small arms.
Fiery darts in flaming volleys flew. --Milton.
Each volley tells that thousands cease to breathe. --Byron.
2. A burst or emission of many things at once; as, a volley of words. ``This volley of oaths.'' --B. Jonson.
Rattling nonsense in full volleys breaks. --Pope.
3. (a) (Tennis) A return of the ball before it touches the ground. (b) (Cricket) A sending of the ball full to the top of the wicket.
{Half volley}. (a) (Tennis) A return of the ball immediately after is has touched the ground. (b) (Cricket) A sending of the ball so that after touching the ground it flies towards the top of the wicket. --R. A. Proctor.
{On the volley}, at random. [Obs.] ``What we spake on the volley begins work.'' --Massinger.
{Volley gun}, a gun with several barrels for firing a number of shots simultaneously; a kind of mitrailleuse.
Troops for the North and South traded volley after volley in an engagement staged at one-third its original scale.
Troops for the North and South traded volley after volley in an engagement staged at one-third its original scale.
Black police armored cars fired volley after volley of choking tear gas into the charging students, and police martial arts squads counterattacked.
Black police armored cars fired volley after volley of choking tear gas into the charging students, and police martial arts squads counterattacked.
The Marines, armed with M-16 assault rifles, returned the volley, firing over the heads of smugglers "in order to try to scare their horses," Stokes said.
The dispute was the latest volley of charges and counter-charges in the highly publicized case that has pitted the black teen-ager and her family against state prosecutors and other officials.
According to the prosecution's scenario at Steven Jenkins' 1984 trial, the teen-ager fired his M-1 carbine at Thulin, killing the loan officer, then chased Blythe across the yard and cut him down with a second volley.
The vote marks the latest volley in the dispute between Kiev and Crimea which has been raging since the Soviet Union's collapse left the predominantly Russian Black Sea region within Ukraine, to which it had been transferred in 1954.
The Soviets shot their last volley on Saturday, damaging Canadian diplomatic operations in Moscow even further by withdrawing 25 of the 39 Soviet citizens who cook, clean and do clerical tasks at the Canadian Embassy.
It ended with Sabatini hitting a winning backhand volley on the 32nd point after squandering seven previous break points. A 2-1 lead should have been the launching pad the defending champion needed. Yet something was missing: confidence.
"Florio lied," the narrator says in the Republican's return volley.
Some shareholders said the volley of charges and countercharges makes it more difficult to decide how to cast their proxies.
The guerrillas responded to calls to surrender with a volley of fire after they were surrounded in a joint police-military operation near Kilise hamlet in Dogucak village late Thursday, the agency said.
In the latest political volley, the Boschwitz camp sent a letter to the Minnesota Jewish community noting that while both candidates are Jewish, Wellstone married a non-Jew and his children are not being raised in the religion.
The merger, announced in May, is Samsung's latest volley in its battle with its Korean archrival, Goldstar Co., which reshuffled its own organization last year.
A corner from the right rebounded off Maldini across the area to Amunike, who placed a sidefoot volley past Marchegiani.
The IRA said it honored its dead comrades with a ceremonial volley in the Loughmacrory area Thursday night.
The attack on Lebanon came a day after a volley of Katyusha rockets was fired from south Lebanon into a community in north Israel.
Yet the pros were beaten by a random collection of stocks picked by a volley of darts at the stock listings.
Thus the typical point in a men's match next month at Wimbledon will last less than three seconds, and consist of three strokes: serve, return and volley. For spectators, such matches lack attraction.
But he said another Soviet step in the disarmament volley was "possible" during the summit that opens Monday.
There are spectators who hope, perhaps vainly, that tennis play will develop beyond the power service into a more interesting volley game in which players will demonstrate their wider skills.