Crossword clues for cannonball
cannonball
- Dive done with the arms around the knees
- *Cry just before hitting the pool
- A solid projectile that in former times was fired from a cannon
- Armament for a man-of-war
- Dyan/Lucille
- Saxophonist Adderley
- Loud cry heard after cleric catches nationalist's first shot
- Heard cleric cry loudly in quick service
- Projectile of old
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context military artillery English) 2 # A spherical projectile fired from a smoothbore cannon; a solid shot; a solid round shot; a ball. 3 # An explosive-filled hollow iron sphere fused through a hole and intended to explode at a calculated distance rather than explode on impact. 4 The result of running and jumping in a flexed position into a swimming pool to create a large splash, mimicking the flight and shape of a cannonball. 5 (context slang figuratively English) Something that moves fast. 6 (context tennis English) a served ball that travels with great speed and describes little or no arc in flight. vb. To jump/dive into water doing a cannonball landing.
WordNet
n. a solid projectile that in former times was fired from a cannon [syn: cannon ball, round shot]
Wikipedia
A cannonball is round shot ammunition for a cannon.
Cannonball may also refer to:
Cannonball (Samuel Zachary Guthrie) is a fictional superhero appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics, commonly in association with the X-Men. Created by writer Chris Claremont and artist Bob McLeod, Cannonball first appeared in Marvel Graphic Novel #4: The New Mutants (1982).
Cannonball is a mutant who uses the ability to fly at jet speeds while encased in an impenetrable force field. The eldest of a large Kentucky coal mining family, Cannonball is one of few X-Men from a southern, rural background and has maintained the values of civility, hard work, and a strong commitment to his beliefs throughout his career as a superhero. Several of his siblings are also mutants and have joined X-Men-related teams, including his sisters, Paige and Melody, and brothers Jay and Jeb. Other siblings include a brother named Lewis, and four more sisters: Joelle, Elizabeth, Cissie and another unnamed sister.
Cannonball was a founding member of the X-Men's junior team The New Mutants. He joined The New Mutants' later incarnation X-Force, serving as second-in-command and field leader. He joined the X-Men, becoming the first member of a secondary team to "graduate". His tenure was complicated by clashes with superiors and he eventually rejoined X-Force and later the X-Men once more.
A "salt-of-the-earth", honest, well-mannered and responsible young man, Guthrie is a natural leader. He is a fan of science fiction, especially the works of Robert A. Heinlein.
Cannonball, also known as Carquake, is a 1976 film starring David Carradine. The film is one of two released in 1976 (the other being'' The Gumball Rally'') that were based on a real illegal cross-continent road race that took place for a number of years in the United States. The same topic later became the basis for the films The Cannonball Run, Cannonball Run II and Speed Zone. The film was written and directed by Paul Bartel, who also directed Death Race 2000.
The name of the film and the plot were inspired by Erwin G. "Cannon Ball" Baker (1882–1960), who traveled across the United States several times, and by the Cannonball Baker Sea-To-Shining-Sea Memorial Trophy Dash, an illegal cross-continent road race introduced by Brock Yates to protest against the 55 MPH speed limit.
Cannonball is the seventh studio album released by American country music artist Pat Green. It was released in 2006 (see 2006 in country music) as his first album for BNA Records. This album produced three singles for him on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts: "Feels Just Like It Should" at No. 13, "Dixie Lullaby" at No. 24, and "Way Back Texas" at No. 28.
"Cannonball" is a song by The Breeders from their 1993 album Last Splash. It was released as a single on August 9, 1993 on 4AD/ Elektra Records, reaching #44 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100, and #40 in the UK Singles Chart. It was released in France in November 1993, where it remained charted for 30 weeks, peaking at #8.
The Cannonball Missile also known as the D-40 was designed by the Applied Physics Laboratory of the Johns Hopkins University under a U.S. Navy contract in the early 1950s.
The missile originally started out as an anti-ship missile to be launched from submarines. In 1952 the US Army Chief of Ordnance funded the project for development as an anti-tank missile. Between 1953 and 1956, around 50 D-40 missiles were test fired.
Cannonball is Joseph McElroy's ninth novel. Set in Southern California and Iraq, it tells the story of Zach, a young and naive military photographer who stumbles upon a secret network of underground water pipes ("horizontal wells") in Iraq used to smuggle what are apparently scrolls containing the original prosperity Gospel, an interview with Jesus peddling free market doctrine.
Cannonball is a British/Canadian adventure drama series starring Paul Birch and William Campbell, and aired on CBC Television in Canada, ABC Weekend TV in the United Kingdom, and in syndication in the United States. Produced by Normandie Productions and ITC Entertainment, the series' interiors were filmed at Canadian Film Industries Limited, a studio in Canada. Exteriors were shot in and around Toronto.
The series is one of the few ITC productions to air on ABC Weekend TV in the UK. Because Associated TeleVision (ATV) owners of ITC, also ran the London weekend and Midlands weekdays ITV companies, they tended to hold the rights for ITC series in order to show each one in the Midlands (where ABC was the weekend operator) during the week. The series aired from October 6, 1958 to July 13, 1959, for 39 episodes in black-and-white.
"Cannonball" is the opening track from Supertramp's 1985 album Brother Where You Bound. It was written and sung by keyboardist Rick Davies entirely in the chord of G minor. Davies stated in an interview "I did it simply to see if it could be done".
The lyrics to the song may have been seen as a veiled message to former member Roger Hodgson but Davies revealed in a French radio interview that they were inspired by a less than perfect concert promoter whom he refused to name.
The track became Supertramp's last US Top 40 single to date, peaking at number 28 on the Billboard singles charts in the spring of 1985. It also crossed over to the dance charts, peaking at number nine.
On the flip side of the 12-inch release is a 10-minute instrumental version of the song.
"Cannonball" is a song written and performed by Irish folk singer Damien Rice. It was released as the second single from his debut album O, following the release of the debut single "The Blower's Daughter" and was subject of many releases in 2003 (reaching #32 in British Singles Chart), 2004 (reaching #19) and 2011 (reaching #9).
The song was picked as the winner's song for the British The X Factor in its eighth series and was released by the series winners Little Mix on 11 December 2011, topping the British and Irish Singles Charts in the first week of release.
Australian singer Natalie Imbruglia covered the song for her 2015 studio album Male.
"Cannonball" is the debut single by American singer-songwriter and actress Lea Michele. The song was released onto iTunes on December 10, 2013 and made its radio debut on Elvis Duran and the Morning Show on December 16, 2013. The song was written by Sia Furler, Benny Blanco, Mikkel Storleer Eriksen, Tor Erik Hermansen and Saud, and was produced by Stargate and Benny Blanco.
"Cannonball" received mostly positive reviews from music critics, who praised Michele's vocal delivery. The song peaked at number 75 on the official Billboard singles chart in the United States and sold 51,000 digital copies in its first week of sale.
"Cannonball" is a song written by Duane Eddy and Lee Hazlewood and performed by Eddy. The song reached #15 on the Billboard Hot 100, #22 on the R&B chart, and #2 on the UK Singles Chart in 1958. The song appeared on his 1958 album, Have 'Twangy' Guitar Will Travel.
The song was produced by Lee Hazlewood and Lester Sill.
Cannonball is the nickname of:
- Cannonball Adderley (1928-1975), jazz alto saxophonist
- Erwin Baker, (1882–1960), motorcycle and automobile racing driver and organizer
- Harry Frederick Baker (1904-1986), Australian speedway motorcycle rider and aviator
- Caroline Buchanan (born 1990), Australian cyclist
- Jim Butler (American football) (born 1943), National Football League running back
- Paul Carter (darts player) (born 1974), English darts player nicknamed "the Cannonball"
- Clyde Crabtree (1905-1994), American football player nicknamed "Cannonball Crabtree"
- Ed Crane (baseball) (1862-1896), Major League Baseball pitcher and outfielder
- Norman Curtis (footballer) (1924-2009), English footballer
- Charlie Fleming (1927-1997), Scottish footballer nicknamed "Cannonball Charlie"
- Bill Jackman (1897-1972), pitcher in baseball's Negro leagues
- Lawson Little (1910-1968), American golfer
- Ed Morris (1880s pitcher) (1862-1937), Major League Baseball pitcher
- Didier Pitre (1883-1934), Canadian ice hockey player
- Dick Redding (1890-1948), American pitcher, outfielder and manager in the Negro leagues
- Frank "Cannonball" Richards (1887-1969), vaudeville performer whose act involved being shot in the gut with a cannonball
- Cannonball Titcomb (1866-1950), Major League Baseball pitcher
- Gus Weyhing (1866-1955), American baseball pitcher
Cannonball is a single released by American singer and songwriter, Skylar Grey. The song was written by Grey, Sam Harris, Noah Feldshuh, Casey Harris, Adam Levin and Alex da Kid, produced by the latter, and features the band X Ambassadors. "Cannonball" is on FIFA 16 soundtrack, and was announced by The Independent. It received official digital release on September 25, 2015 "Cannonball" will support the US collaborative tour between Grey and X Ambassadors. The song sold around 25,000 digital copies in the United States.
Cannonball is an Australian reality television game show set to screen on the Seven Network in 2016. It is hosted by Tim Ross and Ben Mingay, along with Rachael Finch and features contestants competing with celebrities. The water-based game show involves 15 couples competing on a lake attempting to jump the highest, slide the furthest and fly the highest.
The format for the show is a franchise that originated in the Netherlands by Talpa. The four-episode series is produced by ITV Studios Australia and filmed at the Penrith Whitewater Stadium in Penrith, New South Wales, in Sydney's western suburbs.
Usage examples of "cannonball".
She stood, bootjack in hand, and limped closer to the bed as thunder rattled like cannonballs outside.
I snap my right leg back around frontwards, get down in a squat like a tubing surfer, and careen along two feet from the car doors like a little cannonball.
Packed in his carpetbag were two gray rebel caps, one with a bullet hole and the other satisfyingly stained with blood, a zinc plug from an unexploded shell, a revolver with a barrel shattered by a cannonball, the knucklebone of a dead rebel, and a rusting belt buckle with the initials CSA stamped clearly on its face.
The furniture -- double night tables, Cannonball bed, mirror and hutch, pine triple dresser -- looked like great brown blobs.
Obie Yount spent the morning painfully but doggedly practicing with his cannonballs.
The great curve of his belly still rose whalelike out of the shadows, and the hand that lay slack on the floorboards near my foot could have cupped a cannonball with ease.
Blue crab, rock shrimp, shark, yellowfin tuna, hard clam, spiny lobster, stone crab, cannonball jellyfish, American alligator, you name it, and in large amounts, too.
Paying no heed to the protests of his exhausted legs, he cannonballed through the riot-racked bazaars, his vision clearing as he blinked the last of the kerosene from his eyes.
He will heat his cannonballs red-hot, then fire them over the walls, hoping to hit this arsenal.
The gunners had charged the gaudy barrel with a double load of powder and now they rammed two cannonballs down the blackened gullet.
Mackay had marked eight cannonballs as being lost in a river crossing and two barrels of powder had been marked down as stolen, but in the weeks since Assaye no fewer than sixty-eight oxen had lost their burdens to either accidents or thieves.
The clumsy solid cannonballs had done no more than scratch its armored hull, but the captain had evidently had the fright of his life.
So while the cannonball might leave a large, grinning hole in your chest, and while plummeting thousands of feet will certainly squash you down and made you quite a bit shorter and grumpier, neither of these things will kill you.
In the course of the argument cannonballs, scimitars, boomerangs, blunderbusses, stinkpots, meatchoppers, umbrellas, catapults, knuckledusters, sandbags, lumps of pig iron were resorted to and blows were freely exchanged.
Darting about the river like minnows around an old bass were motorized longboats with neat cannonball piles fore and aft of astonishingly green squash and melons.