Meaning of Cannon | Babel Free

Definitions

1. 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, which may include muzzle appendages.
   countable, uncountable
2. A surname.
3. Any similar device for shooting material out of a tube.
   countable, uncountable
4. An autocannon.
   countable, uncountable
5. A bone of a horse’s leg, between the fetlock joint and the knee or hock.
   countable, uncountable
6. A rolled and filleted loin of meat.
   countable, uncountable
7. A cannon bit.
   countable, uncountable
8. A large muzzle-loading artillery piece.
   countable, historical, uncountable
9. A carom.
   countable, uncountable
10. The arm of a player who can throw well.
    countable, figuratively, informal, uncountable
11. A hollow cylindrical piece carried by a revolving shaft, on which it may, however, revolve independently.
    countable, uncountable
12. A cylindrical item of plate armor protecting the arm, particularly one of a pair of such cylinders worn with a couter, the upper cannon protecting the upper arm and the lower cannon protecting the forearm.
    countable, historical, uncountable
13. 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.
    countable, uncountable
14. A pickpocket.
    US, countable, slang, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“Holonyms: gun, field gun; howitzer; mortar”

“water cannon; glitter cannon; confetti cannon; potato cannon”

“a canon of beef or lamb”

“Near-synonym: gun (often synonymous)”

“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.”

“He’s got a cannon out in right.”

“The pauldrons are rather weak, but the cannons of the vambraces are good and come from an Italian armour of considerably earlier date, for they have the tulip form of the first half of the century.”

“During the second half of the century the upper cannons were often joined to the pauldrons […] Here the cannons and the couter, although separate, are joined together when worn by the points securing them to the arming […]”

“The breastplate was now usually globular in shape with attached tassets. The arm defenses were almost always in one piece, the lower and upper cannons joined permanently to the couter with internal leathers and rivets, and the whole frequently also joined permanently to the pauldron.”

“I also learned never to conspicuoulsy^([sic]) watch a cannon while he was working. Pickpockets dislike being watched, even by those who may be "right," because they become uneasy and clumsy and feel conspicuous.”

“A good pickpocket is known to his fellows as a pistol. Rufus Dayne is a cannon. One of the best pickpockets in the country, he makes close to a million dollars a year and has no criminal record at all.”

“The hearing in front of Judge Aileen M. Cannon at a federal courthouse in Fort Pierce, Fla., could touch on other issues, including the scheduling of the trial.”

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