2. Verb. (third-person singular of cannonball) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Cannonballs
1. cannonball [v] - See also: cannonball
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cannonballs
Literary usage of Cannonballs
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Artillery Through the Ages: A Short Illustrated History of Cannon by Albert C. Manucy (1994)
"Marble pillars from Prague churches furnished the cannonballs. ... After firing
10930 cannonballs, 932 stone fragments, 13 fire barrels, and 1822 tons of ..."
2. Adventure Guide Germany by Henk Bekker (2005)
"In this guide, a Schloss that can laugh off a few cannonballs is ... A Schloss
where cannonballs would ruin the porcelain and stuccos is called a palace. ..."
3. Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain (2000)
"Three cannonballs went through the chimney; one ball took off the corner of the
pilot-house; shells were screaming and bursting all around. ..."
4. Proceedings of the United States Naval Institute by United States Naval Institute (1891)
"the same order of effects must occur whether we deal with cannonballs or molecules.
From the physical, non-chemical point of view, all matter is the same—it ..."
5. History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, called Frederick the Great: in ten vol by Thomas Carlyle (1865)
"1 have known enormous cannonballs and granite blocks, torn : after torrent, shot
out under other kinds of Finance-gunner., that were not only less ..."