Crossword-Solution: CANNONBALL
We have 25 clues for the answer “CANNONBALL”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Armament for a man-of-war | 1 answer |
| Way to make a big splash | 1 answer |
| Spherical missile | 1 answer |
| Saxophonist Adderley | 1 answer |
| Projectile of old | 1 answer |
| Projectile from Old Ironsides | 1 answer |
| Missile fired from a mounted gun | 1 answer |
| Dyan/Lucille | 1 answer |
| Dive done with the arms around the knees | 1 answer |
| Civil War missile. | 1 answer |
| Arms-around-knees swimming pool jump | 1 answer |
| Announcement before making a big splash? | 1 answer |
| A serve from Pancho Gonzales. | 1 answer |
| *Cry just before hitting the pool | 1 answer |
| "Human" circus performer | 1 answer |
| Splashy dive | 2 answers |
| Spherical projectile | 2 answers |
| BRITISH MAN-OF-WAR | 10 answers |
| A SOLID PROJECTILE THAT IN FORMER TIMES WAS FIRED FROM A CANNON | 11 answers |
| projectile | 12 answers |
| armament | 17 answers |
| WAR weapon | 20 answers |
| WEAPON of war | 22 answers |
| Dive | 43 answers |
| ammunition | 43 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
REATE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with CANNONBALL (5)
With the report an iron cannonball about five inches in diameter struck Hooja’s dugout just above the water-line, tore a great splintering hole in its side, turned it over, and dumped its occupants into the sea.
Stalpart tells the almost incredible story of a soldier's wife who went to obtain water from a stream and was cut in two by a cannonball while stooping over.
The same author quotes the instance of a man of fifty, who, during the siege of Alexandria in 1801, was struck in the middle of his face, obliquely, by a cannonball, from below upward and from right to left.
The lash of the whip upon his fingers was to Corentin, pain apart, the cannonball that cracked the shell.
Since the fatal morning, for instance, when Lillian Cowperwood had received that utterly destructive note, like a cannonball ripping through her domestic affairs, she had been walking like one in a trance.
Quotes with CANNONBALL (3)
To Ejinar that cannonball was a monster with a will of its own. It showed him what war was: not a battery that exploded and sent matchstick soldiers fleeing, but a dragon that breathed hot fire on his naked heart.
Amedeo loved thick tomes, and in tackling them he felt the physical pleasure of undertaking a great task. Weighing them in his hand, thick, closely printed, squat, he would consider with some apprehension the number of pages, the length of the chapters, then venture into them, a bit reluctant at the beginning, without any desire to perform the initial chore of remembering the names, catching the drift of the story; then he would entrust himself to it, running along the lines,…
A notion of character, not so much discredited as simply forgotten, once held that people only came into themselves partway through their lives. They woke up, were they lucky enough to have consciousness, in the act of doing something they already knew how to do: feeding themselves with currants. Walking the dog. Knotting up a broken bootlace. Singing antiphonally in the choir. Suddenly: This is I, I am the girl singing this alto line off-key, I am the boy loping after the do…
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Appears in: Chicago Tribune, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 19 times in crossword archives (1959–2022).