SALVO

I. noun (plural ~s or ~es) see: safe Date: 1591 1. a simultaneous discharge of two or more guns in military action or as a salute, the release all at one time of a rack of bombs or rockets (as from an airplane), a series of shots by an artillery battery with each gun firing one round in turn after a prescribed interval, the bombs or projectiles released in a ~, something suggestive of a ~: as, a sudden burst , a spirited attack , II. verb Date: 1839 transitive verb to release a ~ of, intransitive verb to fire a ~, III. noun (plural ~s) Etymology: Medieval Latin ~ jure with the right reserved Date: 1621 a mental reservation ; proviso , a means of safeguarding one's name or honor or allaying one's conscience ; salve