were cannoning
- past progressive of cannon.
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Omnibuses and taxicabs crawled painfully through the gloom; pedestrians were cannoning into each other at every step.
From The Submarine Hunters A Story of the Naval Patrol Work in the Great War by Hodgson, Edward S.