noun. A large mounted weapon that fires heavy projectiles. Cannon include guns, howitzers, and mortars.

noun. The loop at the top of a bell by which it is hung.

noun. A round bit for a horse.

noun. The section of the lower leg in some hoofed mammals between the hock or knee and the fetlock, containing the cannon bone.

noun. A carom made in billiards.

intransitive verb. To bombard with cannon.

intransitive verb. To cause to carom in billiards.

intransitive verb. To fire cannon.

intransitive verb. To make a carom in billiards.

In loading logs by steam- or horse-power, to send up (a log) so that it swings crosswise, instead of parallel to the load.

To discharge cannon; cannonade.

In billiards, to make a cannon or carom; hence, to strike one thing and then rebound and strike another; carom.

noun. An engine, supported on a stationary or movable frame called a gun-carriage, for throwing balls and other missiles by the force of gunpowder; a big gun; a piece of ordnance.

noun. In machinery, a hollow cylindrical piece through which a revolving shaft passes, and which, may revolve independently, and with a greater or less speed than that of the shaft.

noun. That part of a bit let into the horse's mouth. Also canon, cannon-bit, canon-bit.

noun. The cannon-bone.

noun. The ear or loop of a bell by which it is suspended. Also spelled canon.

noun. In surgery, an instrument used in sewing up wounds.

noun. plural Ornamental rolls which terminated the breeches or hose at the knee. Minsheu, 1617. Also written canions, cannions, and canons.

noun. [⟨ cannon, v., 2.] In billiards, a carom: little used in the United States, but common in Great Britain. See carom.

intransitive verb. To discharge cannon.

intransitive verb. To collide or strike violently, esp. so as to glance off or rebound; to strike and rebound.

See carom.

noun. A great gun; a piece of ordnance or artillery; a firearm for discharging heavy shot with great force.

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

noun. A kind of type. See Canon.

noun. strictly, a round solid missile of stone or iron made to be fired from a cannon, but now often applied to a missile of any shape, whether solid or hollow, made for cannon. Elongated and cylindrical missiles are sometimes called bolts; hollow ones charged with explosives are properly called shells.

noun. a cannon ball.

noun. a fire cracker of large size.

noun. a device for firing a cannon by a percussion primer.

noun. See Gun Metal.

noun. the pinion on the minute hand arbor of a watch or clock, which drives the hand but permits it to be moved in setting.

noun. impenetrable by cannon balls.

noun. The range of a cannon.

noun. A large-bore machine gun.

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

noun. A large muzzle-loading artillery piece.

noun. A carom.

noun. The arm of a player that can throw well.

verb. To bombard with cannons

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

verb. To fire something, especially spherical, rapidly.

noun. heavy gun fired from a tank

noun. lower part of the leg extending from the hock to the fetlock in hoofed mammals

verb. fire a cannon

noun. a shot in billiards in which the cue ball contacts one object ball and then the other

noun. heavy automatic gun fired from an airplane

noun. (Middle Ages) a cylindrical piece of armor plate to protect the arm

noun. a large artillery gun that is usually on wheels

verb. make a cannon