cannonball

Etymology
from being a round ball that is fired from a cannon.

Noun

 * 1) A spherical projectile fired from a smoothbore cannon.
 * 2) An explosive-filled hollow iron sphere fused through a hole and intended to explode at a calculated distance rather than explode on impact.
 * 3)  The act of jumping (typically into a swimming pool) with the legs bent and the arms wrapped around the knees to create a large splash, mimicking the flight and shape of a cannonball.
 * 4) * The New Yorker, 30 August 2004, p.40
 * 5) * The cannonball could be called the S.U.V. of the pool &mdash; oversized, brash, hormonally hardwired.
 * 6)  Something that moves fast, especially a fast train.
 * 7)  A served ball that travels with great speed and describes little or no arc in flight.
 * 1)  Something that moves fast, especially a fast train.
 * 2)  A served ball that travels with great speed and describes little or no arc in flight.
 * 1)  A served ball that travels with great speed and describes little or no arc in flight.

Translations

 * Afrikaans: kanonkoeël
 * Armenian: հրանոթի գնդակ, թնդանոթի ռմբագունդ
 * Bulgarian: гюле́
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * German:
 * Hungarian:
 * Ido:
 * Italian: palla di cannone
 * Japanese:
 * Korean: ,
 * Ladino: top
 * Macedonian: ѓу́ле
 * Maranao: pinang, pitonang
 * Middle English: gunneston
 * Norman: balle dé canon, boulet dé canon
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: kanonkule
 * Nynorsk: kanonkule
 * Polish: kula armatnia
 * Portuguese: bala de canhão
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: пу́шечное ядро́,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Spanish: bala de cañón
 * Swedish: ,
 * Turkish:


 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * German:
 * Macedonian: бо́мба
 * Portuguese: bomba, bala de canhão

Verb

 * 1)  To jump or dive into water, performing a cannonball landing.
 * He cannonballed into the pool, drenching us all.
 * 1)  To career; to move rapidly.
 * The car cannonballed past.

Translations

 * German: