Cannon

Noun

 * 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) A large-bore machine gun.
 * 3) A bone of a horse's leg, between the fetlock joint and the knee or hock.
 * 4)  A large muzzle-loading artillery piece.
 * 5)  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.
 * 6)  The arm of a player that can throw well.

Verb

 * 1) To bombard with cannons
 * 2)  To play the carom billiard shot. To strike two balls with the cue ball
 * 3) To fire something, especially spherical, rapidly.

Adjectives for Cannon
least-accessible; monstrous; small; academical; clumsy; ugly; yawning; widely-sloping; terraced; prostrate; grumbling; booming; brazen-throated; improvised; boulder-choked; distant; useless; breaching; spiked; roaring; frowning; lateral; brazen; belching; thundering; hostile.

Verbs for Cannon
capture—; charge—; discharge—; level—; load—; man—; mount—; sight—; silence—; train -- upon; —batters; —blazes away; —booms; —emits; —explodes; —menaces; —pounds; —recoils; —revolves; —roars; —rolls; —salutes; —throws; —thunders; — vollies.

Related terms

 * cannonade
 * cannoneer

Thesaurus
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