1.  cannon(n = noun.artifact) - a large artillery gun that is usually on wheels;
is a kind of artillery, gun, heavy weapon, ordnance
has particulars: basilisk, culverin, harpoon gun, high-angle gun, long tom
Derived forms verb cannon₂, noun cannoneer₁

2.  cannon(n = noun.artifact) - heavy gun fired from a tank;
is a kind of gun
is a part of armored combat vehicle, armoured combat vehicle, army tank, tank
Derived form noun cannoneer₁

3.  cannon(n = noun.artifact) - (Middle Ages) a cylindrical piece of armor plate to protect the arm;
is a kind of armor plate, armor plating, armour plate, plate armor, plate armour
is a part of body armor, body armour, cataphract, coat of mail, suit of armor, suit of armour
has particulars: rerebrace, upper cannon, lower cannon, vambrace

4.  cannon(n = noun.artifact) - heavy automatic gun fired from an airplane;
is a kind of gun
is a part of bomber
Derived forms verb cannon₂, noun cannoneer₁

5.  cannon(n = noun.animal) shank - lower part of the leg extending from the hock to the fetlock in hoofed mammals;
is a kind of body part
is a part of hoofed mammal, ungulate, animal leg
has parts: cannon bone

6.  cannon(n = noun.act) carom - a shot in billiards in which the cue ball contacts one object ball and then the other;
is a kind of shot, stroke
is a part of billiards, pocket billiards, pool
Derived form verb cannon₁

1.  cannon(v = verb.competition) - make a cannon;
is one way to hit
Derived form noun cannon₆
Sample sentences: Somebody ----s

2.  cannon(v = verb.competition) - fire a cannon;
is one way to discharge, muster out
Derived forms noun cannon₁, noun cannon₄, noun cannoneer₁
Sample sentences: Somebody ----s

1.  A great gun; a piece of ordnance or artillery; a firearm for discharging heavy shot with great force. [1913 Webster]
" Cannons are made of various materials, as iron, brass, bronze, and steel, and of various sizes and shapes with respect to the special service for which they are intended, as intended, as siege, seacoast, naval, field, or mountain, guns. They always aproach more or less nearly to a cylindrical from, being usually thicker toward the breech than at the muzzle. Formerly they were cast hollow, afterwards they were cast, solid, and bored out. The cannon now most in use for the armament of war vessels and for seacoast defense consists of a forged steel tube reinforced with massive steel rings shrunk upon it. Howitzers and mortars are sometimes called cannon. See Gun." [1913 Webster]

2.  A hollow cylindrical piece carried by a revolving shaft, on which it may, however, revolve independently. [1913 Webster]

3.  A kind of type. See Canon. [1913 Webster]

1.  To discharge cannon. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

2.  To collide or strike violently, esp. so as to glance off or rebound; to strike and rebound.
"He heard the right-hand goal post crack as a pony cannoned into it -- crack, splinter, and fall like a mast." [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

   See Carom. [1913 Webster]

cannon, n. & v.
--n.
1 hist. (pl. same) a large heavy gun installed on a carriage or mounting.
2 an automatic aircraft gun firing shells.
3 Billiards the hitting of two balls successively by the cue-ball.
4 Mech. a hollow cylinder moving independently on a shaft.
5 (in full cannon-bit) a smooth round bit for a horse.
--v.intr.
1 (usu. foll. by against, into) collide heavily or obliquely.
2 Billiards make a cannon shot.

Idiom:
cannon-ball hist. a large usu. metal ball fired by a cannon. cannon-bone the tube-shaped bone between the hock and fetlock of a horse. cannon-fodder soldiers regarded merely as material to be expended in war.

Etymology:
F canon f. It. cannone large tube f. canna CANE: in Billiards sense f. older CAROM

N  arm, arms, weapon, deadly weapon, armament, armaments, armature, panoply, stand of arms, armor, armory, apparatus belli, ammunition, powder, powder and shot, cartridge, ball cartridge, cartouche, fireball, villainous saltpeter, dumdum bullet, explosive, gunpowder, guncotton, mercury fulminate, picrates, pentaerythritol tetranitrate, PETN, high explosive, trinitrotoluene, TNT, dynamite, melinite, cordite, lyddite, plastic explosive, plastique, pyroxyline, sword, saber, broadsword, cutlass, falchion, scimitar, cimeter, brand, whinyard, bilbo, glaive, glave, rapier, skean, Toledo, Ferrara, tuck, claymore, adaga, baselard, Lochaber ax, skean dhu, creese, kris, dagger, dirk, banger, poniard, stiletto, stylet, dudgeon, bayonet, sword-bayonet, sword-stick, side arms, foil, blade, steel, ax, bill, pole-ax, battle-ax, gisarme, halberd, partisan, tomahawk, bowie knife, ataghan, attaghan, yataghan, yatacban, assagai, assegai, good sword, trusty sword, naked sword, cold steel, club, mace, truncheon, staff, bludgeon, cudgel, life preserver, shillelah, sprig, hand staff, quarter staff, bat, cane, stick, knuckle duster, billy, blackjack, sandbag, waddy, gun, piece, firearms, artillery, ordnance, siege train, battering train, park, battery, cannon, gun of position, heavy gun, field piece, mortar, howitzer, carronade, culverin, basilisk, falconet, jingal, swivel, pederero, bouche a feu, petard, torpedo, mitrailleur, mitrailleuse, infernal machine, smooth bore, rifled cannon, Armstrong gun, Lancaster gun, Paixhan gun, Whitworth gun, Parrott gun, Krupp gun, Gatling gun, Maxim gun, machine gun, pompom, ten pounder, small arms, musket, musketry, firelock, fowling piece, rifle, fusil, caliver, carbine, blunderbuss, musketoon, Brown Bess, matchlock, harquebuss, arquebus, haguebut, pistol, postolet, petronel, small bore, breach-loader, muzzle-loader, revolver, repeater, Minis rifle, Enfield rifle, Flobert rifle, Westley Richards rifle, Snider rifle, Martini-Henry rifle, Lee-Metford rifle, Lee-Enfield rifle, Mauser rifle, magazine rifle, needle gun, chassepot, wind gun, air gun, automatic gun, automatic pistol, escopet, escopette, gunflint, gun- lock, hackbut, shooter, shooting iron, six-shooter, shotgun, Uzzi, assault rifle, Kalashnikov, bow, crossbow, balister, catapult, sling, battering ram, gunnery, ballistics, missile, bolt, projectile, shot, ball, grape, grape shot, canister shot, bar shot, cannon shot, langrel shot, langrage shot, round shot, chain shot, balista, ballista, slung shot, trebucbet, trebucket, bullet, slug, stone, brickbat, grenade, shell, bomb, carcass, rocket, congreve, congreve rocket, shrapnel, mitraille, levin bolt, levin brand, thunderbolt, pike, lance, spear, spontoon, javelin, dart, jereed, jerid, arrow, reed, shaft, bolt, boomerang, harpoon, gaff, eelspear, oxgoad, weet-weet, wommerah, cattle prod, chemical mace, en flute, nervos belli pecuniam infinitam.

N  impulse, sudden thought, impromptu, improvisation, inspiration, flash, spurt, improvisatore, creature of impulse, extemporaneous, impulsive, indeliberate, snap, improvised, improvisate, improvisatory, unpremeditated, unmeditated, improvise, unprompted, unguided, natural, unguarded, spontaneous, instinctive, extempore, extemporaneously, offhand, impromptu, a limproviste, improviso, on the spur of the moment, on the spur of the occasion, impulse, impulsion, impetus, momentum, push, pulsion, thrust, shove, jog, jolt, brunt, booming, boost, throw, explosion, propulsion, percussion, concussion, collision, occursion, clash, encounter, cannon, carambole, appulse, shock, crash, bump, impact, elan, charge, beating, blow, dint, stroke, knock, tap, rap, slap, smack, pat, dab, fillip, slam, bang, hit, whack, thwack, cuff, squash, dowse, swap, whap, punch, thump, pelt, kick, punce, calcitration, ruade, arietation, cut, thrust, lunge, yerk, carom, carrom, clip, jab, plug, sidewinder, sidewipe, sideswipe, hammer, sledge hammer, mall, maul, mallet, flail, ram, rammer, battering ram, monkey, pile-driving engine, punch, bat, cant hook, cudgel, ax, dynamics, seismometer, accelerometer, earthquake detector, impelling, impulsive, impellent, booming, dynamic, dynamical, impelled, a hit, a very palpable hit.

N  loudness, power, loud noise, din, blare, clang, clangor, clatter, noise, bombilation, roar, uproar, racket, hubbub, bobbery, fracas, charivari, trumpet blast, flourish of trumpets, fanfare, tintamarre, peal, swell, blast, larum, boom, bang (explosion), resonance, vociferation, hullabaloo, lungs, Stentor, artillery, cannon, thunder, loud, sonorous, high-sounding, big-sounding, deep, full, powerful, noisy, blatant, clangorous, multisonous, thundering, deafening, trumpet-tongued, ear-splitting, ear-rending, ear-deafening, piercing, obstreperous, rackety, uproarious, enough to wake the dead, enough to wake seven sleepers, shrill &c 410 clamorous stentorian, stentorophonic, loudly, aloud, at the top of one's voice, at the top of one's lungs, lustily, in full cry, the air rings with, the deep dread-bolted thunder.

cannon ball, cannon bone, cannon cracker, cannon fire, cannon fodder, loose cannon, lower cannon, upper cannon, water cannon