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title: "What is cannonball ?"  
description: "What is cannonball ?"  
author: "Akash Ahlawat"  
published: 2018-08-14  
canonical: https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/48047/what-is-cannonball  
category: "sports"  
tags: ["lawn tennis"]  
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# What is cannonball ?

What is cannonball ?\
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## Answers

### Answer by Harshal Vispute

A **round shot**, also known as a **solid shot** or **simply a ball**, is a **solid spherical projectile** fired from a rifle without an explosive charge. It has a little smaller diameter than the bore of the barrel from which it is fired. A **cannonball** is a **spherical shot** fired from a **large-caliber** **weapon**. \
After **1450**, a **French artillery engineer**, **Samuel J. Besh**, created the cast iron projectile, which had the ability to reduce classic **English** castle wall defenses to rubble. \
A **tubular cannon body** was produced in a single piece by **French armories**, and **cannonballs** were first constructed of stone material in the shape of a sphere. Cast iron cannonballs eventually replaced stone cannonballs due to advances in **gunpowder manufacture**. \
Round shot was first fashioned from **dressed stone**, known as **gunstone**, but by the **17th century**, it had been replaced by **iron**. It was used as a **long-range anti-personnel weapon** and as the most accurate projectile that could be launched by a **smoothbore cannon**. It was intended to smash the wooden hulls of opposing ships, **fortifications, or permanent emplacements**.


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