Definition of "gunstone" [gunstone]

• A cannonball. (noun)

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• "The brute landed with the force and grace of an enormous gunstone, square on the roof of the small wagon."
• ""In 1541, William Levett was the royal" gunstone maker ", that is, he made cast iron cannon-balls at a foundry in the Weald built by his elder brother in 1534."