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can⋅non

[kan-uh

noun, plural -nons, (especially collectively

) -non, verb

–noun

1.	a mounted gun for firing heavy projectiles; a gun, howitzer, or mortar.

2.	British Machinery. quill (def. 10).

3.	Armor. a cylindrical or semicylindrical piece of plate armor for the upper arm or forearm; a vambrace or rerebrace.

4.	Also called cannon bit, canon bit. a round bit for a horse.

5.	the part of a bit that is in the horse's mouth.

6.	(on a bell) the metal loop by which a bell is hung.

Zoology.

a.	cannon bone.

b.	the part of the leg in which the cannon bone is situated.

8.	British. a carom in billiards.

9.	Underworld Slang. a pickpocket.

–verb (used without object)

10.	to discharge cannon.

11.	British. to make a carom in billiards.

Origin:
1375–1425 (earlier in AL, AF); late ME canon < MF < It cannone, equiv. to cann(a) tube (< L; see cane ) + -one aug. suffix

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Language Translation for : Cannon

Spanish:

cañón,

German:

die Kanone,

Japanese:

大砲

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Can⋅non

[kan-uh

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1.	Annie Jump [juhmp] Show IPA Pronunciation , 1863–1941, U.S. astronomer.

2.	Joseph Gur⋅ney [gur-nee] Show IPA Pronunciation , (“Uncle Joe”), 1836–1926, U.S. politician and legislator.

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can·non (kān'ən) Pronunciation Key
n. pl. cannon or can·nons

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

v. can·noned, can·non·ing, can·nons

v. tr.

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

v. intr.

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

[Middle English canon, from Old French, from Old Italian cannone, augmentative of canna, tube, from Latin, reed; see cane.]

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Can·non (kān'ən) Pronunciation Key
American astronomer noted for her work on classifying stellar spectra.

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Cannon, Joseph Gurney Known as "Uncle Joe." 1836-1926.
American politician who as Republican speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives (1903-1911) was known for his strongly partisan and autocratic use of authority.

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cannon

1400, from O.Fr. canon, from It. cannone "large tube," augmentive of L. canna (see cane). Cannon-fodder (1891) translates Ger. kanonenfutter (cf. Shakespeare's food for powder in I Hen. IV). Cannon-ball is from 1663.

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cannon
noun
1.	a large artillery gun that is usually on wheels
2.	heavy gun fired from a tank
3.	(Middle Ages) a cylindrical piece of armor plate to protect the arm
4.	heavy automatic gun fired from an airplane
5.	lower part of the leg extending from the hock to the fetlock in hoofed mammals
6.	a shot in billiards in which the cue ball contacts one object ball and then the other [syn: carom]
verb
1.	make a cannon
2.	fire a cannon

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Cannon (kān'ən) Pronunciation Key
American astronomer noted for her work on classifying stellar spectra. Cannon classified the spectra of 225,300 stars brighter than magnitude 8.5, as well as 130,000 fainter stars.

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Population (1990): 702 (180 housing units)
Area: 224.8 sq km (land), 21.7 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 58528

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Population (1990): 3232 (1282 housing units)
Area: 8.8 sq km (land), 0.2 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 55009

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Population (1990): 3312 (759 housing units)
Area: 13.7 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)

Cannon Beach, OR (city, FIPS 10850) Location: 45.88879 N, 123.95979 W
Population (1990): 1221 (1367 housing units)
Area: 3.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)

Cannon County, TN (county, FIPS 15) Location: 35.81009 N, 86.06284 W
Population (1990): 10467 (4368 housing units)
Area: 688.1 sq km (land), 0.2 sq km (water)

Cannon, KY Zip code(s): 40923

Cannon, MS Zip code(s): 38603

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Cannon

Cane\, n. [OE. cane, canne, OF. cane, F. canne, L. canna, fr. Gr. ?, ?; prob. of Semitic origin; cf. Heb. q[=a]neh reed. Cf. Canister, canon, 1st Cannon.]

1. (Bot.) (a) A name given to several peculiar palms, species of Calamus and D[ae]manorops, having very long, smooth flexible stems, commonly called rattans. (b) Any plant with long, hard, elastic stems, as reeds and bamboos of many kinds; also, the sugar cane. (c) Stems of other plants are sometimes called canes; as, the canes of a raspberry.

Like light canes, that first rise big and brave. --B. Jonson.

Note: In the Southern United States great cane is the Arundinaria macrosperma, and small cane is. A. tecta.

2. A walking stick; a staff; -- so called because originally made of one the species of cane.

Stir the fire with your master's cane. --Swift.

3. A lance or dart made of cane. [R.]

Judgelike thou sitt'st, to praise or to arraign The flying skirmish of the darted cane. --Dryden.

4. A local European measure of length. See Canna.

Cane borer (Zo["o].), A beetle (Oberea bimaculata) which, in the larval state, bores into pith and destroy the canes or stalks of the raspberry, blackberry, etc.

Cane mill, a mill for grinding sugar canes, for the manufacture of sugar.

Cane trash, the crushed stalks and other refuse of sugar cane, used for fuel, etc.

Cannon

Can"non\, n.; pl. Cannons, collectively Cannon. [F. cannon, fr. L. canna reed, pipe, tube. See Cane.]

1. A great gun; a piece of ordnance or artillery; a firearm for discharging heavy shot with great force.

Note: 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.

2. (Mech.) A hollow cylindrical piece carried by a revolving shaft, on which it may, however, revolve independently.

3. (Printing.) A kind of type. See Canon.

Cannon ball, strictly, a round solid missile of stone or iron made to be fired from a cannon, but now often applied to a missile of any shape, whether solid or hollow, made for cannon. Elongated and cylindrical missiles are sometimes called bolts; hollow ones charged with explosives are properly called shells.

Cannon bullet, a cannon ball. [Obs.]

Cannon cracker, a fire cracker of large size.

Cannon lock, a device for firing a cannon by a percussion primer.

Cannon metal. See Gun Metal.

Cannon pinion, the pinion on the minute hand arbor of a watch or clock, which drives the hand but permits it to be moved in setting.

Cannon proof, impenetrable by cannon balls.

Cannon shot. (a) A cannon ball. (b) The range of a cannon.

Cannon

Can"non\, n.; pl. Cannons, collectively Cannon. [F. cannon, fr. L. canna reed, pipe, tube. See Cane.]

1. A great gun; a piece of ordnance or artillery; a firearm for discharging heavy shot with great force.

2. (Mech.) A hollow cylindrical piece carried by a revolving shaft, on which it may, however, revolve independently.

3. (Printing.) A kind of type. See Canon.