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English Dictionary: cannon by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
cannon
n
  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(s): cannon, shank
  6. a shot in billiards in which the cue ball contacts one object ball and then the other
    Synonym(s): carom, cannon
v
  1. make a cannon
  2. fire a cannon
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Cannon \Can"non\, v. i.
      1. To discharge cannon.
  
      2. To collide or strike violently, esp. so as to glance off
            or rebound; to strike and rebound.
  
                     He heard the right-hand goal post crack as a pony
                     cannoned into it -- crack, splinter, and fall like a
                     mast.                                                --Kipling.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Cannon \Can"non\, n.; pl. {Cannons}, collectively {Cannon}. [F.
      cannon, fr. L. canna reed, pipe, tube. See {Cane}.]
      1. A great gun; a piece of ordnance or artillery; a firearm
            for discharging heavy shot with great force.
  
      Note: Cannons are made of various materials, as iron, brass,
               bronze, and steel, and of various sizes and shapes with
               respect to the special service for which they are
               intended, as intended, as siege, seacoast, naval,
               field, or mountain, guns. They always aproach more or
               less nearly to a cylindrical from, being usually
               thicker toward the breech than at the muzzle. Formerly
               they were cast hollow, afterwards they were cast,
               solid, and bored out. The cannon now most in use for
               the armament of war vessels and for seacoast defense
               consists of a forged steel tube reinforced with massive
               steel rings shrunk upon it. Howitzers and mortars are
               sometimes called cannon. See {Gun}.
  
      2. (Mech.) A hollow cylindrical piece carried by a revolving
            shaft, on which it may, however, revolve independently.
  
      3. (Printing.) A kind of type. See {Canon}.
  
      {Cannon ball}, 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.
  
      {Cannon bullet}, a cannon ball. [Obs.]
  
      {Cannon cracker}, a fire cracker of large size.
  
      {Cannon lock}, a device for firing a cannon by a percussion
            primer.
  
      {Cannon metal}. See {Gun Metal}.
  
      {Cannon pinion}, the pinion on the minute hand arbor of a
            watch or clock, which drives the hand but permits it to be
            moved in setting.
  
      {Cannon proof}, impenetrable by cannon balls.
  
      {Cannon shot}.
            (a) A cannon ball.
            (b) The range of a cannon.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Cannon \Can"non\, n. & v. (Billiards)
      See {Carom}. [Eng.]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Carom \Car"om\, n. [Prob. corrupted fr. F. carumboler to carom,
      carambolage a carom, carambole the red ball in billiards.]
      (Billiards)
      A shot in which the ball struck with the cue comes in contact
      with two or more balls on the table; a hitting of two or more
      balls with the player's ball. In England it is called
      {cannon}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Gun \Gun\, n. [OE. gonne, gunne; of uncertain origin; cf. Ir.,
      {Gael}.) A LL. gunna, W. gum; possibly (like cannon) fr. L.
      canna reed, tube; or abbreviated fr. OF. mangonnel, E.
      mangonel, a machine for hurling stones.]
      1. A weapon which throws or propels a missile to a distance;
            any firearm or instrument for throwing projectiles by the
            explosion of gunpowder, consisting of a tube or barrel
            closed at one end, in which the projectile is placed, with
            an explosive charge behind, which is ignited by various
            means. Muskets, rifles, carbines, and fowling pieces are
            smaller guns, for hand use, and are called {small arms}.
            Larger guns are called {cannon}, {ordnance},
            {fieldpieces}, {carronades}, {howitzers}, etc. See these
            terms in the Vocabulary.
  
                     As swift as a pellet out of a gunne When fire is in
                     the powder runne.                              --Chaucer.
  
                     The word gun was in use in England for an engine to
                     cast a thing from a man long before there was any
                     gunpowder found out.                           --Selden.
  
      2. (Mil.) A piece of heavy ordnance; in a restricted sense, a
            cannon.
  
      3. pl. (Naut.) Violent blasts of wind.
  
      Note: Guns are classified, according to their construction or
               manner of loading as {rifled} or {smoothbore},
               {breech-loading} or {muzzle-loading}, {cast} or
               {built-up guns}; or according to their use, as {field},
               {mountain}, {prairie}, {seacoast}, and {siege guns}.
  
      {Armstrong gun}, a wrought iron breech-loading cannon named
            after its English inventor, Sir William Armstrong.
  
      {Great gun}, a piece of heavy ordnance; hence (Fig.), a
            person superior in any way.
  
      {Gun barrel}, the barrel or tube of a gun.
  
      {Gun carriage}, the carriage on which a gun is mounted or
            moved.
  
      {Gun cotton} (Chem.), a general name for a series of
            explosive nitric ethers of cellulose, obtained by steeping
            cotton in nitric and sulphuric acids. Although there are
            formed substances containing nitric acid radicals, yet the
            results exactly resemble ordinary cotton in appearance. It
            burns without ash, with explosion if confined, but quietly
            and harmlessly if free and open, and in small quantity.
            Specifically, the lower nitrates of cellulose which are
            insoluble in ether and alcohol in distinction from the
            highest (pyroxylin) which is soluble. See {Pyroxylin}, and
            cf. {Xyloidin}. The gun cottons are used for blasting and
            somewhat in gunnery: for making celluloid when compounded
            with camphor; and the soluble variety (pyroxylin) for
            making collodion. See {Celluloid}, and {Collodion}. Gun
            cotton is frequenty but improperly called nitrocellulose.
            It is not a nitro compound, but an ethereal salt of nitric
            acid.
  
      {Gun deck}. See under {Deck}.
  
      {Gun fire}, the time at which the morning or the evening gun
            is fired.
  
      {Gun metal}, a bronze, ordinarily composed of nine parts of
            copper and one of tin, used for cannon, etc. The name is
            also given to certain strong mixtures of cast iron.
  
      {Gun port} (Naut.), an opening in a ship through which a
            cannon's muzzle is run out for firing.
  
      {Gun tackle} (Naut.), the blocks and pulleys affixed to the
            side of a ship, by which a gun carriage is run to and from
            the gun port.
  
      {Gun tackle purchase} (Naut.), a tackle composed of two
            single blocks and a fall. --Totten.
  
      {Krupp gun}, a wrought steel breech-loading cannon, named
            after its German inventor, Herr Krupp.
  
      {Machine gun}, a breech-loading gun or a group of such guns,
            mounted on a carriage or other holder, and having a
            reservoir containing cartridges which are loaded into the
            gun or guns and fired in rapid succession, sometimes in
            volleys, by machinery operated by turning a crank. Several
            hundred shots can be fired in a minute with accurate aim.
            The {Gatling gun}, {Gardner gun}, {Hotchkiss gun}, and
            {Nordenfelt gun}, named for their inventors, and the
            French {mitrailleuse}, are machine guns.
  
      {To blow great guns} (Naut.), to blow a gale. See {Gun}, n.,
            3.

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Cannon, KY
      Zip code(s): 40923
   Cannon, MS
      Zip code(s): 38603
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