A spherical projectile fired from a smoothbore cannon.
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.
An explosive-filled hollow iron sphere fused through a hole and intended to explode at a calculated distance rather than explode on impact.
Something that moves fast, especially a fast train.
A served ball that travels with great speed and describes little or no arc in flight.
To jump or dive into water, performing a cannonball landing.
To career; to move rapidly.
A cord that, when lit, conveys the fire to some explosive device.
The mechanism that ignites the charge in an explosive device; a detonator.
A friction match for smokers' use, having a bulbous head which when ignited is not easily blown out even in a gale of wind.
A device to prevent excessive overcurrent from overload or short circuit in an electrical circuit, containing a component that melts and interrupts the current when too high a load is passed through it.
A tendency to lose one's temper.
A kind of match made of paper impregnated with niter and having the usual igniting tip.
To have been protected against overcurrent by its fuse melting away, creating a gap in the wire, thus stopping the circuit from operating.
To liquify by heat; melt.
To furnish with or install a fuse to protect a circuit against overcurrent.
To form a bicyclic compound from two similar or different types of ring such that two or more atoms are shared between the resulting rings
To furnish with or install a fuse to (an explosive device) (see Usage notes for noun above).
To melt together; to blend; to mix indistinguishably.
To melt together.