1. A simultaneous discharge of a number of missiles.
2. the missiles thus discharged.
3. A bursting forth of many things together: a volley of oaths.
4. sports the flight of a ball before it touches the ground: kicked the soccer ball on the volley.
5. sports A shot, especially in tennis, made by striking the ball before it touches the ground.
6. to discharge in or as if in a volley: volley musket shots at the attackers.
7. sports to strike (a tennis ball, for example) before it touches the ground.
8. to be discharged in or as if in a volley.
9. sports to make a volley, especially in tennis.
10. to move rapidly, forcefully, or loudly like missiles: the hailstones volleyed down. charges and countercharges volleyed through the courtroom.

1. the simultaneous firing of a number of missiles or bullets; the projectiles so fired
2. the flight of a ball just before it bounces
3. A shot in which the ball is played before it hits the ground
4. to fire a volley of shots
5. to hit the ball before it touches the ground
6. to be fired in a volley
7. to make a volley

1. A flight of missiles, as arrows, bullets, or the like; the simultaneous discharge of a number of small arms.
2. A burst or emission of many things at once.
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4. A return of the ball before it touches the ground.
5. A sending of the ball full to the top of the wicket.
6. 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.
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8. to return the ball before it touches the ground.
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10. to send the ball full to the top of the wicket.
11. to discharge with, or as with, a volley.

1. in cricket, of the bowler: to bowl a ball which reaches the batsman before pitching.
2. to bowl a full-pitch.
3. to discharge in a volley, or as if in a volley: often with out. compare volleyed.
4. in lawn-tennis and tennis, to return on the fly: said of the ball: drive (the ball) with the racket before it strikes the ground.
5. to fly together, as missiles; hence, to issue or be discharged in large number or quantity.
6. to sound together, or in continuous or repeated explosions, as firearms.
7. in lawn-tennis and tennis, to return the ball before it touches the ground, especially by a swift stroke: as, he volleys well.
8. in cricket: A full-pitch.
9. A ball so bowled as to reach the batsman without touching the ground.
10. in mining, the ignition and explosion of several blasts in the rock at one time, or of groups of such blasts in sections.
11. the flight of a number of missile weapons together; hence, the discharge simultaneously, or nearly so, of a number of missile weapons.
12. hence, a noisy or explosive burst or emission of many things at once.
13. in lawn-tennis and tennis, a return of the ball by the racket before it touches the ground, especially a swift, return.

1. utter rapidly
2. discharge in, or as if in, a volley
3. rapid simultaneous discharge of firearms
4. be dispersed in a volley
5. a tennis return made by hitting the ball before it bounces
6. hit before it touches the ground
7. make a volley