A solid projectile that in former times was fired from a cannon.
1 Path of cannon ball ; weight of fish in water; hitting distant mark.
2 A well-directed cannon ball carried away the hinder half, of his horse.
3 Suppose a cannon ball of sufficient weight and speed strikes an object.
4 The air's resistance is such that a cannon ball of 3 lbs.
5 Wolfe's cane was knocked out of his hand by a cannon ball .
6 He was killed by a cannon ball - struck in the breast before our regiment.
7 This cannon ball is not a memorial of the Civil War.
8 Augustus was struck by a cannon ball , and died in a few minutes.
9 Another cannon ball flew through the air and struck a tree near by.
10 A cannon ball struck the ground quite near to a company of soldiers.
11 My heart began suddenly to feel like a cannon ball , in my breast.
12 Suddenly a cannon ball hissed so low above the crowd that everyone ducked.
13 Terence tossed me a loaf the size of a cannon ball , and another.
14 The palisade will afford but trifling resistance to a twelve pound cannon ball .
15 Some of its statements tear away old fallacies as by a cannon ball .
16 A cannon ball , too, would only fly a few yards, said Lieutenant Procope.
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