Definition of "cannon-shot" [cannon-shot]

• A ball or shot for cannon. (noun)
• The range or distance a cannon will throw a ball. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "Ahlers had arrived early and made more than 100 snowballs, all stacked in neat cannon-shot pyramids along the rim of the fountain."
• "I don't know whether they're perforating ulcers, or cancers, or cannon-shot wounds, or what not."
• "For now, although I couldn't guess it, as I lay pampering myself with a little preserved jellied chicken and Rhine wine - of which Willy's store-chest yielded a fine abundance - that terrible day was approaching, that awful thunderclap of a day when the world turned upside down in a welter of powder-smoke and cannon-shot and steel, which no one who lived through it will ever forget."