cannons

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noun
  1. 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. It may include muzzle appendages.

  2. 2

    Any similar device for shooting material out of a tube.

  3. 3

    A bone of a horse's leg, between the fetlock joint and the knee or hock.

  4. 4

    A cannon bit.

  5. 5

    A large muzzle-loading artillery piece.

  6. 6

    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.

  7. 7

    The arm of a player that can throw well.

    He's got a cannon out in right.

  8. 8

    A hollow cylindrical piece carried by a revolving shaft, on which it may, however, revolve independently.

  9. 9

    (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.

verb
  1. 1

    To bombard with cannons.

  2. 2

    To play the carom billiard shot. To strike two balls with the cue ball

    The white cannoned off the red onto the pink.

  3. 3

    To fire something, especially spherical, rapidly.

  4. 4

    To collide or strike violently, especially so as to glance off or rebound.

noun
  1. 1

    A generally accepted principle; a rule.

    The trial must proceed according to the canons of law.

  2. 2

    A group of literary works that are generally accepted as representing a field.

  3. 3

    The works of a writer that have been accepted as authentic.

    the entire Shakespeare canon

  4. 4

    A eucharistic prayer, particularly the Roman Canon.

  5. 5

    A religious law or body of law decreed by the church.

    We must proceed according to canon law.

  6. 6

    A catalogue of saints acknowledged and canonized in the Roman Catholic Church.

  7. 7

    In monasteries, a book containing the rules of a religious order.

  8. 8

    A member of a cathedral chapter; one who possesses a prebend in a cathedral or collegiate church.

  9. 9

    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.

  10. 10

    (Roman law) A rent or stipend payable at some regular time, generally annual, e.g., canon frumentarius

  11. 11

    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.

  12. 12

    A rolled and filleted loin of meat; also called cannon.

    a canon of beef or lamb

  13. 13

    A large size of type formerly used for printing the church canons, standardized as 48-point.

  14. 14

    The part of a bell by which it is suspended; the ear or shank of a bell.

  15. 15

    A carom.

Synonyms

noun
  1. 1

    A clergy member serving a cathedral or collegiate church.

  2. 2

    A canon regular, a member of any of several Roman Catholic religious orders.

noun
  1. 1

    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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