The 18th century standards were based on projectile weight, and dated back to use of muzzle loaded cannons which fired solid cannonballs.

The warrior-priests were armed with a battery that fired cannonballs cast from blessed silver, and their cutlasses and musket shot were likewise blessed.

He retreats to Skull Rock where he fires cannonballs.

When the fleet fired cannonballs, the explosives failed to penetrate the fort's unfinished, yet thick palmetto log walls.

They are too large to have been used in the Tsar Cannon, which would have fired 800 kg stone grapeshot rather than cannonballs.

Breech-loading swivel gun could fire either cannonballs against obstacles, or grapeshot against troops.

The pirates, among them Captain Kidd, were rumored to have buried their treasure onshore; the Dutch and the British occasionally fired cannonballs at the populace from the safety of the bay.

Here, at the highest elevation, the large cannon, still in position, would fire heated cannonballs down into the ships.

Gama soon an effort of revenge fired several cannonballs at the town.

Except for the rigging (designed by British nautical experts) and the cannons (replicas of those on the real H.M.S. Bounty), which can fire plastic cannonballs, nothing on the Jolly Roger actually moves.