different between cannonball vs gunstone

English

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

cannon +? ball from being a round ball that is fired from a cannon.

Noun

cannonball (plural cannonballs)

1. (military, artillery)
   1. A spherical projectile fired from a smoothbore cannon

      Synonyms: solid shot, ball, round shot

   2. An explosive-filled hollow iron sphere fused through a hole and intended to explode at a calculated distance rather than explode on impact.

Translations

Etymology 2

From behaving like a cannonball fired from a cannon

Noun

cannonball (plural cannonballs)

1. (diving) The act 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.
   • The New Yorker, 30 August 2004, p.40
   • The cannonball could be called the S.U.V. of the pool — oversized, brash, hormonally hardwired.
2. (slang, figuratively) Something that moves fast.

   Meetings of the model train club always begin with the song "Wabash Cannonball".

3. (tennis) A served ball that travels with great speed and describes little or no arc in flight.

Derived terms

• cannonball run

See also

(diving):

• jack-knife
• bellyflop
• backflop
• rip entry

Translations

Verb

cannonball (third-person singular simple present cannonballs, present participle cannonballing, simple past and past participle cannonballed)

1. To jump/dive into water doing a cannonball landing.

   He cannonballed into the pool, drenching us all.

2. To careen; to move rapidly

Translations

Interjection

cannonball!

1. Yelled when jumping/diving into the water, doing a cannonball landing.

English

Etymology

From Middle English gunstone; equivalent to gun +? stone: they were originally made from stone.

Noun

gunstone (plural gunstones)

1. (obsolete) A cannonball.

Anagrams

• nonguest, onguents

Middle English

Alternative forms

• gunne stone, gonne-stone, gonne stone, gonn stone, gunne ston

Etymology

From gunne +? stone.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??unst??n/

Noun

gunstone (plural gunstones)

1. (Late Middle English) A cannonball; a missile used by a cannon.
2. (rare, Late Middle English) A missile used by a trebuchet or similar device.

Descendants

• English: gunstone (obsolete)
• Scots: gunstane (obsolete)

References

• “g?nne-st?n, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-23.