cannons
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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.
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Any similar device for shooting material out of a tube.
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A bone of a horse's leg, between the fetlock joint and the knee or hock.
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A cannon bit.
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A large muzzle-loading artillery piece.
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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.”
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The arm of a player that can throw well.
“He's got a cannon out in right.”
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A hollow cylindrical piece carried by a revolving shaft, on which it may, however, revolve independently.
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(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.
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To bombard with cannons.
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To play the carom billiard shot. To strike two balls with the cue ball
“The white cannoned off the red onto the pink.”
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To fire something, especially spherical, rapidly.
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To collide or strike violently, especially so as to glance off or rebound.
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A generally accepted principle; a rule.
“The trial must proceed according to the canons of law.”
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A group of literary works that are generally accepted as representing a field.
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The works of a writer that have been accepted as authentic.
“the entire Shakespeare canon”
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A eucharistic prayer, particularly the Roman Canon.
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A religious law or body of law decreed by the church.
“We must proceed according to canon law.”
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A catalogue of saints acknowledged and canonized in the Roman Catholic Church.
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In monasteries, a book containing the rules of a religious order.
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A member of a cathedral chapter; one who possesses a prebend in a cathedral or collegiate church.
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A piece of music in which the same melody is played by different voices, but beginning at different times; a round.
“Pachelbel’s Canon has become very popular.”
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(Roman law) A rent or stipend payable at some regular time, generally annual, e.g., canon frumentarius
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Those sources, especially including literary works, which are considered part of the main continuity regarding a given fictional universe.
“A spin-off book series revealed the aliens to be originally from Earth, but it's not canon.”
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A rolled and filleted loin of meat; also called cannon.
“a canon of beef or lamb”
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A large size of type formerly used for printing the church canons, standardized as 48-point.
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The part of a bell by which it is suspended; the ear or shank of a bell.
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A carom.
Synonyms
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A clergy member serving a cathedral or collegiate church.
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A canon regular, a member of any of several Roman Catholic religious orders.
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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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