You will forgive me Fearn but, resizing cannonballs on the battlefield, sounds pretty fictional to me, even assuming the artillery officer had flour in his head, instead of brains.
Even if the issue were to adjust only one ball, which seems rather insolit, it would have to be a sculptor's work, to reshape the thing with the necessary profile ... not a task for rank and file .
More plausibly i would accept this is not an actual cannonball.
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