cannon

IPA: kˈænʌn

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.
Any similar device for shooting material out of a tube.
(military, chiefly aviation) An autocannon.
A bone of a horse's leg, between the fetlock joint and the knee or hock.
A cannon bit.
(historical) A large muzzle-loading artillery piece.
(sports, billiards, snooker, pool) A carom.
(baseball, figuratively, informal) The arm of a player who can throw well.
(engineering) A hollow cylindrical piece carried by a revolving shaft, on which it may, however, revolve independently.
(historical) A cylindrical item of plate armor protecting the arm, particularly one of a pair of such cylinders worn with a couter, the upper cannon protecting the upper arm and the lower cannon protecting the forearm.
(xiangqi) 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.
(US, slang) A pickpocket.
A surname.
(printing, uncountable) Alternative form of canon (“a large size of type”) [A generally accepted principle; a rule.]
(fandom slang) Misspelling of canon. [A generally accepted principle; a rule.]

To bombard with cannons.
(sports, billiards, snooker, pool) To play the carom billiard shot; to strike two balls with the cue ball.
To fire something, especially spherical, rapidly.
To collide or strike violently, especially so as to glance off or rebound.

Examples of "cannon" in Sentences

Am i the only one to notice where the cannon is aiming?
Being a loose cannon is part of her bad-girl, tattooed, Jessica Rabbit appeal.
The Macross has its massive main cannon, which can take out numerous enemy capital ships at once.
August 5, 2009 12: 22 PM wonder how they will cost out areas with no home delivery, as we have in cannon beach?
A failure by up to 5 indicates that the cannon is fouled and requires 2 full rounds to clear before it can be reloaded.
Once the cannon is aimed properly and fired, the cannonball hits the ship on its own, driven solely by the laws of physics.
However, the soldiers, not knowing the business end of a phaser cannon from the charging coil end, assumed that the aliens were preparing to attack.
If the cannon is using stone shot and firing into a stone environment (like most towns), this damage comes from stone fragments (slashing), or if the cannon is using any solid shot and firing into a wooden environment (like a ship), the damage comes from wooden shivers (piercing).
Castle, and extensive nearby properties, for charitable purposes, including, by 1810, a National School in the village of Bamborough, and an officer to fire a cannon from the dangerous rocks every fifteen minutes in foggy weather, besides providing for the education of thirty girls within the castle walls.