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"Cannon" Definition

noun

A large mounted weapon that fires heavy projectiles. Cannon include guns, howitzers, and mortars.
A round bit for a horse.
Chiefly British A carom made in billiards.
The loop at the top of a bell by which it is hung.
Zoology The section of the lower leg in some hoofed mammals between the hock or knee and the fetlock, containing the cannon bone.

verb-transitive

Chiefly British To cause to carom in billiards.
To bombard with cannon.

verb-intransitive

Chiefly British To make a carom in billiards.
To fire cannon.

verb

To discharge cannon.

biographical name

Joseph Gurney 1836–1926 Am. polit.

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