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Cannon   /kˈænən/   Listen
Cannon

noun
(pl. cannons, collectively cannon)
1.
A large artillery gun that is usually on wheels.
2.
Heavy gun fired from a tank.
3.
(Middle Ages) a cylindrical piece of armor plate to protect the arm.
4.
Heavy automatic gun fired from an airplane.
5.
Lower part of the leg extending from the hock to the fetlock in hoofed mammals.  Synonym: shank.
6.
A shot in billiards in which the cue ball contacts one object ball and then the other.  Synonym: carom.
verb
1.
Make a cannon.
2.
Fire a cannon.



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"Cannon" Quotes from Famous Books



... room he used to lift iron bars, cannon-balls, heave dumb-bells, and haul himself up to the ceiling with his teeth. You could hear the thumps half ...
— Literary Lapses • Stephen Leacock
... have allowed you to remain in uncertainty concerning a dispatch which arrived this morning from Hanover. You shall now hear my formal answer to it. Prince, poet, do not be alarmed. Our festivities will take place for all that, our cannon will thunder, our lanterns will blaze through the night. Prince, do you want to put me ...
— The German Classics of The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Vol. VII. • Various
... North would disregard the sneers of the press and of ambitious orators who would declaim while cannon thundered, she also knew that his impassive exterior hid a sense of humiliating defeat, and that the moment in which he was obliged to utter his aye for war would be the bitterest of his life. She fancied that ...
— Senator North • Gertrude Atherton
... a Basque, and a soldier to his fingertips. When the French army invaded Spain he was given command of the fortress of Pampeluna. Defending it bravely against desperate odds he was wounded [Sidenote: May 23, 1521] in the leg with a cannon ball and forced to yield. The leg was badly set and the bone knit crooked. With indomitable courage he had it broken and reset, stretched on racks and the protruding bone sawed off, but all the torture, in the age before anaesthetics, was in vain. ...
— The Age of the Reformation • Preserved Smith
... a divine poem, of which the history of every nation is a canto and every man a word. Its strains have been pealing along down the centuries, and though there have been mingled the discords of warring cannon and dying men, yet to the Christian, philosopher, and historian—the humble listener—there has been a divine melody running through the song which speaks of hope and halcyon days ...
— Brave Men and Women - Their Struggles, Failures, And Triumphs • O.E. Fuller


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