Possible Clues:

• Projectile of old
• Arms-around-knees swimming pool jump
• Battlefield projectile
• ''Petticoat Junction'' transport
• It was shot as part of history
• Missile fired from a mounted gun
• Shot, clerical dignitary, reportedly at social function
• Sounds as if the cleric got around to getting fired
• Will the cleric yell, by the sound of it, when shot?
• One discharged from Wellington's artillery?