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   [kan-uhn] 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.
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(on a bell) the metal loop by which a bell is hung.
7.
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.
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verb (used without object)
10.
to discharge cannon.
11.
British. to make a carom in billiards.

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Origin:
1375–1425 (earlier in Anglo-Latin, AF); late Middle English canon < Middle French < Italian cannone, equivalent to cann(a) tube (< Latin; see cane) + -one augmentative suffix

Can be confused: cannon, canon.
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Word Origin & History

cannon
c.1400, "tube for projectiles," from O.Fr. canon (14c.), from It. cannone "large tube," augmentive of L. canna "reed, tube" (see cane). Cannon fodder (1891) translates Ger. kanonenfutter (cf. Shakespeare's food for powder in "I Hen. IV"). Spelling not differentiated from canon
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till c.1800. Cannon ball is from 1660s.
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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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Copyright © 2002. Published by Houghton Mifflin. All rights reserved.
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cannon definition


  1. n.
    a gun; a revolver. (Underworld.) : Rocko pulled out his cannon and aimed it at Marlowe's throat.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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