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Princeton's WordNet
cannonball, cannon ball, round shotnoun
a solid projectile that in former times was fired from a cannon
Wiktionary
cannon ballnoun
Alternate spelling of cannonball.
cannon ballnoun
A solid usually iron spherical projectile fired from a smoothbore cannon; a solid shot; a round shot.
cannon ballnoun
An explosive-filled hollow iron sphere fuzed through a hole and designed to explode at a calculated distance rather than explode on impact.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Cannon-ball, Cannon-bullet, Cannon-shotnoun
The balls which are shot from great guns.
Etymology: from cannon, ball, bullet, and shot.
He reckons those for wounds that are made by bullets, although it be a cannon-shot. Richard Wiseman, Surgery.
Let a cannon-bullet pass through a room, it must strike successively the two sides of the room. John Locke.
ChatGPT
cannon ball
A cannon ball is a round, heavy metal object that was traditionally used as ammunition in warfare, launched from a cannon. Today, it is often used as a term to describe a particular type of dive into a swimming pool where the diver curls into a ball shape to create a large splash.
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Cannon Ball
Cannon Ball is a census-designated place in Sioux County, North Dakota in the United States and on the Standing Rock Indian Reservation. It sits in the northeastern part of Sioux County where the Cannonball River meets Lake Oahe of the Missouri River. The population was 875 at the 2010 census.
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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of Cannon Ball in Chaldean Numerology is: 8
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of Cannon Ball in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7
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