Synonyms for cannonball

Grammar : Noun

Spell : kan-uh n-bawl

Phonetic Transcription : ˈkæn ənˌbɔl

Top 10 synonyms for cannonball

Other synonyms for the word cannonball

Définition of cannonball

As in message : noun communication, often written
As in swan dive : noun arched dive like swan's
As in epistle : noun letter
As in ammunition : noun projectiles for weaponry

Example sentences :

"A doctor will be down on 'the Cannonball' about five o'clock," he added.
Extract from : « They of the High Trails » by Hamlin Garland

When the soldier is hit by a cannonball, rags are as becoming as purple.
Extract from : « Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience » by Henry David Thoreau

His head was shot off by a cannonball just as his regiment was charging at the bridge.
Extract from : « With Fire and Sword » by Samuel H. M. Byers

The Moravians held their immersion baptismal ceremonies in the Cannonball.
Extract from : « North Dakota » by Various

For the next three seconds you could have heard a cannonball drop.
Extract from : « The Gold Bat » by P. G. Wodehouse

At first I thought a cannonball' d knocked my whole head off.
Extract from : « Si Klegg, Book 2 (of 6) » by John McElroy

Who was, then, the important personage struck by a French cannonball?
Extract from : « The Private Life of Napoleon Bonaparte, Complete » by Constant

Being laid about six feet thick, a cannonball could not have penetrated.
Extract from : « The History of Sumatra » by William Marsden

Underhill, left alone, sat for some moments looking from the broken table to the cannonball and then back again.
Extract from : « L. P. M. » by J. Stewart Barney

They must have been sheltered altogether from our fire, for among the dead I did not see one who had been killed by a cannonball.
Extract from : « No Surrender! » by G. A. Henty

Antonyms for cannonball

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