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Definition cannon

Etymology

Borrowed around 1400 from Old French canon, from Italian cannone, from Latin canna, from Ancient Greek ????? (kánna, “reed”), from Akkadian ? (qanű, “reed”), from Sumerian ?? (gi.na).

This spelling was not fixed until about 1800.

Noun

cannon (plural cannon or cannons)

  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. It may include muzzle appendages.
  2. Any similar device for shooting material out of a tube.
  3. A bone of a horse's leg, between the fetlock joint and the knee or hock.
  4. (historical) A large muzzle-loading artillery piece.
  5. (sports, billiards, snooker, pool) A carom.
  6. (baseball, figuratively, informal) The arm of a player that can throw well.
  7. (engineering) A hollow cylindrical piece carried by a revolving shaft, on which it may, however, revolve independently.
  8. (printing) Alternative form of canon (a large size of type)
  9. (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)

  1. To bombard with cannons.
  2. (sports, billiards, snooker, pool) To play the carom billiard shot. To strike two balls with the cue ball
  3. To fire something, especially spherical, rapidly.
  4. To collide or strike violently, especially so as to glance off or rebound.

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