Cannon /(?)/

Can·non

Cannon

pl. Cannons, Cannon

A great gun; a piece of ordnance or artillery; a firearm for discharging heavy shot with great force.
A hollow cylindrical piece carried by a revolving shaft, on which it may, however, revolve independently. (Mech.)
A kind of type. See Canon. (Printing.)

Cannon ball: strictly, a round solid missile of stone or iron made to be fired from a cannon, but now often applied to a missile of any shape, whether solid or hollow, made for cannon. Elongated and cylindrical missiles are sometimes called bolts; hollow ones charged with explosives are properly called shells.
Cannon bullet: a cannon ball
Cannon cracker: a fire cracker of large size.
Cannon lock: a device for firing a cannon by a percussion primer.
Cannon metal: See Gun Metal.
Cannon pinion: the pinion on the minute hand arbor of a watch or clock, which drives the hand but permits it to be moved in setting.
Cannon proof: impenetrable by cannon balls.
Cannon shot: A cannon ball.

v. i.

To discharge cannon.
To collide or strike violently, esp. so as to glance off or rebound; to strike and rebound.
He heard the right-hand goal post crack as a pony cannoned into it -- crack, splinter, and fall like a mast.
— Kipling.

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