Cannon

Quick meaning: Cannon is a noun meaning Any similar device for shooting material out of a tube.

Meaning

Any similar device for shooting material out of a tube.

More Meanings

1. A bone of a horse’s leg, between the fetlock joint and the knee or hock.
2. (cooking) A rolled and filleted loin of meat.
3. A cannon bit.
4. (sports, billiards, snooker, pool) A carom.
5. (baseball, figuratively, informal) The arm of a player who can throw well.
6. 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, which may include muzzle appendages.
7. (historical) A large muzzle-loading artillery piece.

Example Sentences

a canon of beef or lamb

He’s got a cannon out in right.

Near-synonym: gun (often synonymous)

Holonyms: gun, field gun; howitzer; mortar

Word Forms

• cannons
• cannoning
• cannoned

Synonyms for cannon

Depending on context, synonyms include gun, shank, carom.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include shank, carom, howitzer, artillery, cannonball, shotgun.

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