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Cannonball meaning
A spherical projectile fired from a smoothbore cannon. | An explosive-filled hollow iron sphere fused through a hole and intended to explode at a calculated distance rather than explode on impact. | 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.
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While some of his performances were critically praised, others were ridiculed, particularly in the bloated action comedy "Cannonball Run II," a sequel to his financial success "The Cannonball Run" (1981).
However, when this experiment is actually conducted, the cannonball always falls at the foot of the mast, as if the cannonball knows to travel with the ship despite being separated from it.
To date, no other accurate method for measuring gravitational mass has been discovered. citation Newton's cannonball A cannon on top of a very high mountain shoots a cannonball horizontally.
Brody with a giant cannonball as he goes for the cover, and Claudio immediately kicks out at one!
Cannonball waddles down to the ring and hits a double clothesline then a double avalanche in the corner to both Manders and Justice.
Enofe hit Wolfgang with a top rope cannonball.
House is cleaned, including a Cannonball to Vinci, but Owens is knocked off the apron for a crash as we take a break.
Ivar dove from a production crate and hit Reed with a cannonball dive.
King barks and runs for the cannonball straight into Danielson.
Off the ropes, suicide dive takes Gigi out, Jacy off the apron with a cannonball but Roxanne isn’t ther and she takes Dolin out instead!
One races toward it blindly, with the emotional sensitivity of a cannonball, while simultaneously being forced to decide, ingloriously, prematurely, who to be.
Stunner denied, knocking Uso off the apron and a pair of superkicks set up the cannonball senton!
To the floor, Nyla blasts her with a cannonball off the apron!
Willow gets her, cannonball, still just two!
Ebenor Percussion founder William Leclerc used wood from the Quebec City 'cannonball' tree to make limited-edition snare drums.
Everything breaks down and Nox misses her running reverse Cannonball, setting up the assisted Insane Elbow to give Sane the pin at 8:57.
He nailed a rolling cannonball in the corner for a nearfall.
He pondered about how the straight to the ground, as opposed to following a curved path, like a fired cannonball.
Louis Armstrong and also lived in Queens, as did the trumpeter Clark Terry, the alto saxophone player Cannonball Adderley and the bassist and composer Charles Mingus.
Officially, the first day of summer isn’t until June 20. Unofficially, the season kicks off with your first dip in the pool or cannonball — however, you prefer to make an entrance.