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Cannonball   /kˈænənbˌɔl/   Listen
Cannonball

noun
1.
A solid projectile that in former times was fired from a cannon.  Synonyms: cannon ball, round shot.



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"Cannonball" Quotes from Famous Books



... more hesitation, and a cannonball, the first which the Imperialists had fired, at that moment crashed into a house hard by, and ...
— The Lion of the North • G.A. Henty
... English gunners had been equally careless, Mir Madan ordered his horse to charge; but the Englishmen had kept their powder dry and received the cavalry with a deadly fire that sent them headlong back. At this moment Mir Madan himself was killed by a cannonball, and his followers, dismayed at his loss, began a ...
— In Clive's Command - A Story of the Fight for India • Herbert Strang


Words linked to "Cannonball" :   projectile, missile


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