cannon

UK /ˈkæn.ən/ US /ˈkæn.ən/
noun 6verb 4adj 1name 1

Definitions

noun

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.

Holonyms: gun, field gun; howitzer; mortar

2

Any similar device for shooting material out of a tube.

water cannon; glitter cannon; confetti cannon; potato cannon

3

Any similar device for shooting material out of a tube.

4

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

5

A rolled and filleted loin of meat.

a canon of beef or lamb

verb

1

To bombard with cannons.

2

To play the carom billiard shot; to strike two balls with the cue ball.

The white cannoned off the red onto the pink.

3

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.

4

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.

She ran down the stairs which she had come up so nervously that morning and cannoned into Edmund at the bottom.

noun

1

Misspelling of canon.

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