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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.
EXPANDthe part of a bit that is in the horse's mouth.
verb (used without object)
10.
to discharge cannon.
11.
British. to make a carom in billiards.
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| a calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
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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
EXPANDtill c.1800. Cannon ball is from 1660s.
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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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Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
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