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▸ noun: Any similar device for shooting material out of a tube.
▸ noun: (military, chiefly aviation) An autocannon.
▸ noun: A bone of a horse's leg, between the fetlock joint and the knee or hock.
▸ noun: A cannon bit.
▸ noun: (historical) A large muzzle-loading artillery piece.
▸ noun: (sports, billiards, snooker, pool) A carom.
▸ noun: (baseball, figuratively, informal) The arm of a player who can throw well.
▸ noun: (engineering) A hollow cylindrical piece carried by a revolving shaft, on which it may, however, revolve independently.
▸ noun: (historical) A cylindrical item of plate armor protecting the arm, particularly one of a pair of such cylinders worn with a couter, the upper cannon protecting the upper arm and the lower cannon protecting the forearm.
▸ noun: (xiangqi) A piece which moves horizontally and vertically like a rook but captures another piece by jumping over a different piece in the line of attack.
▸ noun: (US, slang) A pickpocket.
▸ verb: To bombard with cannons.
▸ verb: (sports, billiards, snooker, pool) To play the carom billiard shot; to strike two balls with the cue ball.
▸ verb: To fire something, especially spherical, rapidly.
▸ verb: To collide or strike violently, especially so as to glance off or rebound.
▸ noun: A surname.
▸ noun: (printing, uncountable) Alternative form of canon (“a large size of type”) [A generally accepted principle; a rule.]
▸ noun: (fandom slang) Misspelling of canon. [A generally accepted principle; a rule.]
▸ adjective: (fandom slang) Misspelling of canon.
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carom,
shank,
cannon cracker,
cannon lock,
base,
cannonball,
chamber,
cannon-ball,
cannon ball,
canon,
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