cannon

[Can·non]

A cannon is a large gun that fires heavy metal shells or other projectiles. Originally it was attached to wheels and pulled by men.

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A great gun; a piece of ordnance or artillery; a firearm for discharging heavy shot with great force.

Noun
a shot in billiards in which the cue ball contacts one object ball and then the other

Noun
lower part of the leg extending from the hock to the fetlock in hoofed mammals

Noun
a large artillery gun that is usually on wheels

Noun
heavy automatic gun fired from an airplane

Noun
(Middle Ages) a cylindrical piece of armor plate to protect the arm

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Noun
heavy gun fired from a tank

Verb
fire a cannon

Verb
make a cannon

pl.
of Cannon

n.
A great gun; a piece of ordnance or artillery; a firearm for discharging heavy shot with great force.

n.
A hollow cylindrical piece carried by a revolving shaft, on which it may, however, revolve independently.

n.
A kind of type. See Canon.

n. & v.
See Carom.

Cannon

Can"non , n.; pl.Cannons , collectively Cannon. [F. cannon, fr. L. canna reed, pipe, tube. See Cane.] 1. A great gun; a piece of ordnance or artillery; a firearm for discharging heavy shot with great force. &hand; Cannons are made of various materials, as iron, brass, bronze, and steel, and of various sizes and shapes with respect to the special service for which they are intended, as intended, as siege, seacoast, naval, field, or mountain, guns. They always aproach more or less nearly to a cylindrical from, being usually thicker toward the breech than at the muzzle. Formerly they were cast hollow, afterwards they were cast, solid, and bored out. The cannon now most in use for the armament of war vessels and for seacoast defense consists of a forged steel tube reinforced with massive steel rings shrunk upon it. Howitzers and mortars are sometimes called cannon. See Gun. 2. (Mech.) A hollow cylindrical piece carried by a revolving shaft, on which it may, however, revolve independently. 3. (Printing.) A kind of type. See Canon. Cannon ball, strictly, a round solid missile of stone or iron made to be fired from a cannon, but now often applied to a missile of any shape, whether solid or hollow, made for cannon. Elongated and cylindrical missiles are sometimes called bolts; hollow ones charged with explosives are properly called shells. -- Cannon bullet, a cannon ball. [Obs.] -- Cannon cracker, a fire cracker of large size. -- Cannon lock, a device for firing a cannon by a percussion primer. -- Cannon metal. See Gun Metal. -- Cannon pinion, the pinion on the minute hand arbor of a watch or clock, which drives the hand but permits it to be moved in setting. -- Cannon proof, impenetrable by cannon balls. -- Cannon shot. (a) A cannon ball. (b) The range of a cannon.

Cannon

Can"non, n. & v. (Billiards) See Carom. [Eng.]

A great gun; a piece of ordnance or artillery; a firearm for discharging heavy shot with great force.

See Carom.

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Usage Examples

Part of the reason I sort of shot out like a cannon out of Michigan and left home at such an early age is because I had to feel independent.

Small debts are like small shot they are rattling on every side, and can scarcely be escaped without a wound: great debts are like cannon of loud noise, but little danger.

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Other Usage Examples

If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots.

The Arabs could have peace tomorrow if sufficient numbers of Palestinians were not content to be used as cannon fodder in fruitless assaults on Israel, even as the surrounding Arab powers distract the Arab masses with the red herring of Israel while retarding their countries with their repression and corruption.

You are not going to get peace with millions of armed men. The chariot of peace cannot advance over a road littered with cannon.