Word Finder - cannon

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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. It may include muzzle appendages.

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Any similar device for shooting material out of a tube.

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A bone of a horse's leg, between the fetlock joint and the knee or hock.

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A cannon bit.

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A large muzzle-loading artillery piece.

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A carom.

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In English billiards, a cannon is when one's cue ball strikes the other player's cue ball and the red ball on the same shot; and it is worth two points.

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The arm of a player that can throw well.

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He's got a cannon out in right.

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

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(Chinese chess) 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.

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To bombard with cannons.

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To play the carom billiard shot. To strike two balls with the cue ball

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The white cannoned off the red onto the pink.

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To fire something, especially spherical, rapidly.

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To collide or strike violently, especially so as to glance off or rebound.

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A generally accepted principle; a rule.

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The trial must proceed according to the canons of law.

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A group of literary works that are generally accepted as representing a field.

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The works of a writer that have been accepted as authentic.

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the entire Shakespeare canon

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A eucharistic prayer, particularly the Roman Canon.

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A religious law or body of law decreed by the church.

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We must proceed according to canon law.

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A catalogue of saints acknowledged and canonized in the Roman Catholic Church.

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In monasteries, a book containing the rules of a religious order.

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A member of a cathedral chapter; one who possesses a prebend in a cathedral or collegiate church.

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A piece of music in which the same melody is played by different voices, but beginning at different times; a round.

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Pachelbel’s Canon has become very popular.

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(Roman law) A rent or stipend payable at some regular time, generally annual, e.g., canon frumentarius

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Those sources, especially including literary works, which are considered part of the main continuity regarding a given fictional universe.

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A spin-off book series revealed the aliens to be originally from Earth, but it's not canon.

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A rolled and filleted loin of meat; also called cannon.

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a canon of beef or lamb

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A large size of type formerly used for printing the church canons, standardized as 48-point.

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The part of a bell by which it is suspended; the ear or shank of a bell.

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A carom.

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A clergy member serving a cathedral or collegiate church.

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A canon regular, a member of any of several Roman Catholic religious orders.

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A Near Eastern and Caucasian musical instrument related to the zither, dulcimer, or harp having either 26 strings and a single bridge, or twice that number and two bridges.