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  • noun Alternate (dated) spelling of cannonball.
  • noun military, artillery A solid usually iron spherical projectile fired from a smoothbore cannon; a solid shot; a round shot.
  • noun military, artillery An explosive-filled hollow iron sphere fuzed through a hole and designed to explode at a calculated distance rather than explode on impact.

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  • noun a solid projectile that in former times was fired from a cannon

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