volley

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volley simultaneous discharge of firearms or flight of missiles; utterance of many words, etc.; phr. at the v. of a ball in its flight, etc., (fig.) without consideration, at random XVI; return stroke at a ball before it has touched the ground XIX. — (O)F. volée :- Rom. *volāta flight, sb. use of pp. fem. of L. volāre fly; see -Y3.
Hence vb. XVI.

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