Definitions for cannonball

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cannonball can·non·ball

Spelling: [kan-uh n-bawl]

IPA: /ˈkæn ənˌbɔl/

Cannonball is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 21 points.

You can make 169 anagrams from letters in cannonball (aabcllnnno).

Definitions for cannonball

noun

1. a missile, usually round and made of iron or steel, designed to be fired from a cannon.
2. Tennis. a served ball that travels with great speed and describes little or no arc in flight.
3. anything that moves with great speed, as an express train.
4. Julian ("Cannonball") 1928–75, American jazz saxophonist.

adjective

1. made from a curled-up position with the arms pressing the knees against one's chest:
2. moving at great speed:

Origin of cannonball

First recorded in 1655-65; cannon + ball¹

Examples for cannonball

A cannonball—metal or human—displaces water, but it regains its own level.

My description of cannonball has become admittedly abstract, and the novel is sometimes inexplicably opaque.

The Moravians held their immersion baptismal ceremonies in the cannonball.

His head was shot off by a cannonball just as his regiment was charging at the bridge.

It is at this point that cannonball turns toward Pynchonian conspiracy.

When the soldier is hit by a cannonball, rags are as becoming as purple.

For the next three seconds you could have heard a cannonball drop.

But the Republican Party has shot like a cannonball to the right.

Leading from the front, he has a cannonball of a shot and can wreak havoc from distance.

"A doctor will be down on 'the cannonball' about five o'clock," he added.