cannonball
A spherical projectile fired from a smoothbore cannon.
Other meanings
An explosive-filled hollow iron sphere fused through a hole and intended to explode at a calculated distance rather than explode on impact.
The act of jumping (typically into a swimming pool) with the legs bent and the arms wrapped around the knees to create a large splash, mimicking the flight and shape of a cannonball.
A kind of
- missile
Related words
- cannonballer
- cannonball run
- cannonball tree
- cannonball effect
- cannonball fungus
- cannonball problem
- cannonball mangrove
- human cannonball
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “cannonball” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.