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Antonyms for
cannon
A complete assembly, consisting of an artillery tube and a breech mechanism, firing mechanism or base cap, which is a component of a gun, howitzer or mortar, which may include muzzle appendages.
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All Definitions for Cannon

Below are all the dictionary definitions of cannon:

1A complete assembly, consisting of an artillery tube and a breech mechanism, firing mechanism or base cap, which is a component of a gun, howitzer or mortar, which may include muzzle appendages.
2Any similar device for shooting material out of a tube.
3An autocannon.
4A bone of a horse’s leg, between the fetlock joint and the knee or hock.
5A rolled and filleted loin of meat.
6A cannon bit.
7A carom.
8The arm of a player who can throw well.
9A hollow cylindrical piece carried by a revolving shaft, on which it may, however, revolve independently.
10A piece which moves horizontally and vertically like a rook but captures another piece by jumping over a different piece in the line of attack.
11A pickpocket.
12To bombard with cannons.
13To play the carom billiard shot
14To strike two balls with the cue ball.
15To fire something, especially spherical, rapidly.
16To collide or strike violently, especially so as to glance off or rebound.
17A large muzzle-loading artillery piece.
18A 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.
19A surname.
20Misspelling of canon. [A generally accepted principle
21A rule.]
22Misspelling of canon.
23Alternative form of canon (“a large size of type”). [A generally accepted principle
24A rule.]

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