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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
- ball
- billet doux
- buckshot
- bulletin
- cannonball
- card
- charge
- communication
- communiqué
- confetti
- dispatch
- dope
- earful
- epistle
- fuse
- FYI
- gainer
- get-well
- grenade
- intelligence
- intimation
- invite
- iron rations
- jackknife
- kite
- letter
- line
- love letter
- materiel
- memo
- memorandum
- message
- missile
- missive
- munition
- napalm
- news
- note
- notice
- paper
- plunge
- poison pen
- postcard
- powder
- report
- rocket
- round
- scratch
- shell
- shot
- shrapnel
- swallow dive
- tab
- thank-you
- tidings
- torpedo
- wire
- word
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
- "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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