cannon
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.
Noun 4 meanings
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.
“Holonyms: gun, field gun; howitzer; mortar”
Any similar device for shooting material out of a tube.
“water cannon; glitter cannon; confetti cannon; potato cannon”
A bone of a horse’s leg, between the fetlock joint and the knee or hock.
A rolled and filleted loin of meat.
“a canon of beef or lamb”
Verb 4 meanings
To bombard with cannons.
To play the carom billiard shot; to strike two balls with the cue ball.
“The white cannoned off the red onto the pink.”
To fire something, especially spherical, rapidly.
To collide or strike violently, especially so as to glance off or rebound.
Etymology
na) (for more, see cane). Doublet of canyon. This spelling was not fixed until about 1800.
CANNON at a glance
CANNON has 6 letters and scores 8 points in Scrabble (C 3 + A 1 + N 1 + N 1 + O 1 + N 1) and 12 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #6,770 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
Rhymes with cannon
All rhymes- PHENOMENON17
- CANON7
- ANON4
- XENON12
- MIGNON9
- FANON8
- PHONON11
- TENON5
- MAGNON9
- BOURGUIGNON15
- PINON7
- NINON5
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