Pronunciation Noun
cannon (plural cannon)
- 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.
- water cannon
- glitter cannon
- (military, aviation) An autocannon.
- A bone of a horse's leg, between the fetlock joint and the knee or hock.
- A cannon bit.
- (historical) A large muzzle-loading artillery piece.
- (sports, billiards, snooker, pool) A carom.
- 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.
- (baseball, figuratively, informal) The arm of a player that can throw well.
- He's got a cannon out in right.
- (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.
- Italian: carambola
- Russian: карамбо́ль
cannon (cannons, present participle cannoning; past and past participle cannoned)
- To bombard with cannons.
- (sports, billiards, snooker, pool) To play the carom billiard shot. To strike two balls with the cue ball
- The white cannoned off the red onto the pink.
- To fire something, especially spherical, rapidly.
- To collide or strike violently, especially so as to glance off or rebound.
- 1898, Rudyard Kipling, "The Maltese Cat" in The Day's Work,
- […] he heard the right-hand goal post crack as a pony cannoned into it&mdashcrack, splinter, and fall like a mast.
- 1952, C. S. Lewis, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, Collins, 1998, Chapter 11,
- She ran down the stairs which she had come up so nervously that morning and cannoned into Edmund at the bottom.
- 1898, Rudyard Kipling, "The Maltese Cat" in The Day's Work,
- Italian: cannonare (rare), cannoneggiare
Cannon
Pronunciation
- (GA) IPA: /ˈkænən/
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