Dictionary Entry
volley
volley is a 6-letter English word with 15 senses as noun, transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A flight of missiles, as arrows, bullets, or the like; the simultaneous discharge of a number of small arms. Face value is 12 in Scrabble and 14 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
6 letters · Scrabble 12 · Words With Friends 14 · 15 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
A flight of missiles, as arrows, bullets, or the like; the simultaneous discharge of a number of small arms.
- 2noun
A burst or emission of many things at once; as, a volley of words.
- 3noun
A return of the ball before it touches the ground.
- 4noun
A sending of the ball full to the top of the wicket.
- 5transitive verb
To discharge with, or as with, a volley.
- 6intransitive verb
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.
- 7intransitive verb
To return the ball before it touches the ground.
- 8intransitive verb
To send the ball full to the top of the wicket.
- 9noun
a tennis return made by hitting the ball before it bounces
- 10noun
rapid simultaneous discharge of firearms
"our fusillade from the left flank caught them by surprise"
- 11verb
utter rapidly
"volley a string of curses"
- 12verb
make a volley
- 13verb
discharge in, or as if in, a volley
"the attackers volleyed gunshots at the civilians"
- 14verb
hit before it touches the ground
"volley the tennis ball"
- 15verb
be dispersed in a volley
"gun shots volleyed at the attackers"
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