round shot

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   a solid projectile that in former times was fired from a cannon

   Synonymscannonballcannon ball

   Broaderprojectile

Questions about round shot

What does round shot mean?

round shot means "a solid projectile that in former times was fired from a cannon".

What is another word for round shot?

Close synonyms include cannonball, cannon ball. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is round shot a common word?

round shot is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.