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cannon
/ˈkænən/
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What does cannon mean?
noun
- A complete assembly, consisting of an artillery tube and a breech mechanism, firing mechanism or base cap, which is a component of a gun, howitzer or mortar, which may include muzzle appendages.
- Any similar device for shooting material out of a tube.
- An autocannon.
More meanings (18)
noun
- A bone of a horse’s leg, between the fetlock joint and the knee or hock.
- A rolled and filleted loin of meat.
- A cannon bit.
- A carom.
- (figuratively, informal) The arm of a player who can throw well.
- A hollow cylindrical piece carried by a revolving shaft, on which it may, however, revolve independently.
- Alternative form of canon (“a large size of type”).
- A piece which moves horizontally and vertically like a rook but captures another piece by jumping over a different piece in the line of attack.
- (slang) A pickpocket.
- (slang) Misspelling of canon.
- (historical) A large muzzle-loading artillery piece.
- (historical) A cylindrical item of plate armor protecting the arm, particularly one of a pair of such cylinders worn with a couter, the upper cannon protecting the upper arm and the lower cannon protecting the forearm.
verb
- To bombard with cannons.
- To play the carom billiard shot; to strike two balls with the cue ball.
- To fire something, especially spherical, rapidly.
- To collide or strike violently, especially so as to glance off or rebound.
adjective
- (slang) Misspelling of canon.
proper noun
- A surname.
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The cannon with their noses poked slantingly at the ground grunted and grumbled like stout men, brave but with objections to hurry.
“Well, that’s so. You’ve had to keep in the woods all the time, of course. Did you hear ’em shooting the cannon?”
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Barbicane and his bold colleagues, to whom nothing seemed impossible, had succeeding in solving the complex problems of projectile, cannon, and powder.
This day, at Cannon Mills, the great doctors of the church were to give an answer to this loud and stern demand.
The metal was still too precious to be used for cannon balls, which were hewn of stone from quarries on Maidstone Heath.