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