CANNON

carom, cannon

(noun) a shot in billiards in which the cue ball contacts one object ball and then the other

cannon, shank

(noun) lower part of the leg extending from the hock to the fetlock in hoofed mammals

cannon

(noun) a large artillery gun that is usually on wheels

cannon

(noun) heavy automatic gun fired from an airplane

cannon

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

cannon

(noun) heavy gun fired from a tank

cannon

(verb) fire a cannon

cannon

(verb) make a cannon

Source: WordNet® 3.1

Etymology

Noun

cannon (plural cannons or cannon)

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. It may include muzzle appendages.

Any similar device for shooting material out of a tube.

(military, aviation) An autocannon.

A bone of a horse's leg, between the fetlock joint and the knee or hock.

A cannon bit.

(historical) A large muzzle-loading artillery piece.

(sports, billiards, snooker, pool) A carom.

(baseball, figuratively, informal) The arm of a player that can throw well.

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

(printing) Alternative form of canon (a large size of type)

(Chinese chess) 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.

Verb

cannon (third-person singular simple present cannons, present participle cannoning, simple past and past participle cannoned)

To bombard with cannons.

(sports, billiards, snooker, pool) 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.

Proper noun

Cannon (plural Cannons)

A surname.

Source: Wiktionary

Can"non, n.; pl.Cannons, collectively Cannon. Etym: [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.

Note: 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.)

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

3. (Printing.)

Definition: 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.

Can"non, n. & v. (Billiards)

Definition: See Carom. [Eng.]

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

CANNON

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