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cannonball
(redirected from Cannonbal)

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cannonball
1. Tennis
a. a very fast low serve
b. (as modifier): a cannonball serve
2. a jump into water by a person who has his arms tucked into the body to form a ball

cannonball [′kanĀ·ən‚bȯl]
(ordnance)
A missile that is spheroidal in shape and fired from a cannon.


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For 494 years all that pinpointed the Flodden battlefield - recently named one of the five most important and best preserved in Britain - was this deadpan 19th-Century map reference on Flodden Hill: "Here was found a pit of bones and a leaden cannonbal.
 
 
 
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