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Cannon   /kˈænən/   Listen
Cannon

noun
(pl. cannons, collectively cannon)
1.
A large artillery gun that is usually on wheels.
2.
Heavy gun fired from a tank.
3.
(Middle Ages) a cylindrical piece of armor plate to protect the arm.
4.
Heavy automatic gun fired from an airplane.
5.
Lower part of the leg extending from the hock to the fetlock in hoofed mammals.  Synonym: shank.
6.
A shot in billiards in which the cue ball contacts one object ball and then the other.  Synonym: carom.
verb
1.
Make a cannon.
2.
Fire a cannon.



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"Cannon" Quotes from Famous Books



... although the coffee houses were not for both sexes, as in other European countries. The London City Quaeries for 1660 makes mention of "a she-coffee merchant." Mary Stringar ran a coffee house in Little Trinity Lane in 1669; Anne Blunt was mistress of one of the Turk's-Head houses in Cannon Street in 1672. Mary Long was the widow of William Long, and her initials, together with those of her husband, appear on a token issued from the Rose tavern in Bridge Street, Covent Garden. Mary Long's token from the "Rose coffee house by the playhouse" in Covent Garden ...
— All About Coffee • William H. Ukers
... along the grass grown tract, a hundred and fifty yards wide, between the foot of the dunes and the cultivated country inland. They were received, however, by so hot a fire by the five hundred musketeers posted by Vere in the sand hills on their flank, and by the two cannon on West Hill, that they fell back upon their infantry just as the Dutch horse, under Count Louis, ...
— By England's Aid or The Freeing of the Netherlands (1585-1604) • G.A. Henty
... to seek "the bubble reputation at the cannon's mouth," that great composed, uncomplaining body of men; content simply to wear the uniform and to know that their toil was contributing to a result just as important as the work of anyone in the army. Did they wish to ...
— History of the American Negro in the Great World War • W. Allison Sweeney
... Yuh said so, once when I said I was just a plain, ordinary man. I've sworn off being ordinary since yuh gave me that tip," he said cheerfully. "Let's have a look at that cannon you're hiding under your apron. Where did yuh resurrect it? Out of some ...
— The Lonesome Trail and Other Stories • B. M. Bower
... said TIM O'FLANAGAN (from Edinburgh), who, no doubt, would have developed the idea, had not his head at that moment been carried off by a cannon-ball. Very comic! ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 98, March 22, 1890 • Various


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