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Cannon
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- 1 Misspelling of canon. alt-of, misspelling, slang
- 1 A surname.
"The hearing in front of Judge Aileen M. Cannon at a federal courthouse in Fort Pierce, Fla., could touch on other issues, including the scheduling of the trial."
- 1 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. countable, uncountable
"Holonyms: gun, field gun; howitzer; mortar"
- 2 Misspelling of canon. alt-of, misspelling, slang
- 3 a shot in billiards in which the cue ball contacts one object ball and then the other wordnet
- 4 Any similar device for shooting material out of a tube. countable, uncountable
"water cannon; glitter cannon; confetti cannon; potato cannon"
- 5 lower part of the leg extending from the hock to the fetlock in hoofed mammals wordnet
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- 6 Any similar device for shooting material out of a tube.; An autocannon. countable, uncountable
- 7 a large artillery gun that is usually on wheels wordnet
- 8 A bone of a horse’s leg, between the fetlock joint and the knee or hock. countable, uncountable
- 9 heavy automatic gun fired from an airplane wordnet
- 10 A rolled and filleted loin of meat. countable, uncountable
"a canon of beef or lamb"
- 11 (Middle Ages) a cylindrical piece of armor plate to protect the arm wordnet
- 12 A cannon bit. countable, uncountable
- 13 heavy gun fired from a tank wordnet
- 14 A large muzzle-loading artillery piece. countable, historical, uncountable
"Near-synonym: gun (often synonymous)"
- 15 A carom. countable, uncountable
"In English billiards, a cannon is when one’s cue ball strikes the other player’s cue ball and the red ball on the same shot; and it is worth two points."
- 16 The arm of a player who can throw well. countable, figuratively, informal, uncountable
"He’s got a cannon out in right."
- 17 A hollow cylindrical piece carried by a revolving shaft, on which it may, however, revolve independently. countable, uncountable
- 18 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. countable, historical, uncountable
"The pauldrons are rather weak, but the cannons of the vambraces are good and come from an Italian armour of considerably earlier date, for they have the tulip form of the first half of the century."
- 19 Alternative form of canon (“a large size of type”). alt-of, alternative, uncountable
- 20 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. countable, uncountable
- 21 A pickpocket. US, countable, slang, uncountable
"I also learned never to conspicuoulsy^([sic]) watch a cannon while he was working. Pickpockets dislike being watched, even by those who may be "right," because they become uneasy and clumsy and feel conspicuous."
- 1 To bombard with cannons.
- 2 fire a cannon wordnet
- 3 To play the carom billiard shot; to strike two balls with the cue ball.
"The white cannoned off the red onto the pink."
- 4 make a cannon wordnet
- 5 To fire something, especially spherical, rapidly.
"Montenegro had hardly threatened in the second period but served notice they were still potent as Nikola Vukcevic took a smart pass from Jovetic and cannoned a shot off Hennessey's shins."
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- 6 To collide or strike violently, especially so as to glance off or rebound.
"[…] he heard the right-hand goal post crack as a pony cannoned into it—crack, splinter, and fall like a mast."
Etymology
Attested from around 1400 as Middle English canon, canoun, from Old French canon, from Italian cannone, from Latin canna, from Ancient Greek κάννα (kánna, “reed”), from Akkadian 𒄀 (qanû, “reed”), from Sumerian 𒄀𒈾 (gi.na). Doublet of canyon. This spelling was not fixed until about 1800.
Attested from around 1400 as Middle English canon, canoun, from Old French canon, from Italian cannone, from Latin canna, from Ancient Greek κάννα (kánna, “reed”), from Akkadian 𒄀 (qanû, “reed”), from Sumerian 𒄀𒈾 (gi.na). Doublet of canyon. This spelling was not fixed until about 1800.
* As an Irish surname, Anglicized from Ó Canann, Ó Canáin (“descendant of Cano, Canán”), the name being from cano (“wolf cub”). Comparable to McCann, McConnon, Connon. * As an English surname, from the noun canon. * As a French surname, variant of Canon.
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