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

The cannons were the main defense.
The Aged runs to the cannon and loads it.
These did not smoulder after the cannon had fired.
The cannon misfired and exploded on the first shot.
The fate of the cannon after the battle is in dispute.
Cannon Field is the home of the Alamo Liaison Squadron.
The cannons of Tipu Sultan decorate the ramparts of the museum.
In the center of the green is a hexagonal bandstand and a cannon.
She was a devout Christian and was cannonized by the Churches of the East.
A projectile is hurled by the cannon by inserting it at the mouth of the barrel.