Thesaurus: cannon

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1. pl. of Cannon
2. n. A great gun; a piece of ordnance or artillery; a firearm for discharging heavy shot with great force.
3. n. A hollow cylindrical piece carried by a revolving shaft, on which it may, however, revolve independently.
4. n. A kind of type. See Canon.
5. n. & v. See Carom.
6. n. a large artillery gun that is usually on wheels
7. n. heavy gun fired from a tank
8. n. (Middle Ages) a cylindrical piece of armor plate to protect the arm
9. n. heavy automatic gun fired from an airplane
10. n. lower part of the leg extending from the hock to the fetlock in hoofed mammals
11. n. a shot in billiards in which the cue ball contacts one object ball and then the other
12. v. make a cannon