A piece of stone of a definite form and size (usually artificially shaped), used for some special… A rounded stone or pebble formerly used as a…

A cannon-ball (of metal or stone); sometimes cannon-bullet. Obsolete exc. historical.

transferred. The ball or stone thrown by a bombard. Obsolete. rare.

Large balls of cast iron or steel used as ammunition for a cannon; (as a count noun) a piece of ammunition of this kind; a cannonball.

A heavy round projectile, usually of stone or iron, designed to be fired from a cannon. Formerly also: †such projectiles collectively (obsolete)…

slang. A bullet; a shell, cannonball, grenade, or bomb; (in plural also) ammunition.

A cannon-ball. Also (with numerals) as collective singular or uninflected plural.

A large stone ball or projectile, esp. one that is shot from a bombard.

= round shot, n. Now chiefly historical.

poetic. Applied to a (? stone) cannon-ball.

An elongated bullet for a rifled cannon.

Military slang. A kind of large cannonball. Obsolete. rare.