cannons
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Definitions
noun
- 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.
- A cannon bit.
verb
- To bombard with cannons.
- 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.
noun
- A generally accepted principle; a rule.“The trial must proceed according to the canons of law.”
- A group of literary works that are generally accepted as representing a field.
- The works of a writer that have been accepted as authentic.“the entire Shakespeare canon”
- A eucharistic prayer, particularly the Roman Canon.
noun
- A clergy member serving a cathedral or collegiate church.
- A canon regular, a member of any of several Roman Catholic religious orders.
noun
- A Near Eastern and Caucasian musical instrument related to the zither, dulcimer, or harp having either 26 strings and a single bridge, or twice that number and two bridges.
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French canonshankcarombarrelsbatteriescanonscanyonsdiggersfirecrackersgunshoseshottiesmortarsshellsstudsworksmuskets