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.

cannon boxnoun

A type of enclosure for axle bearings.

cannon cockernoun

A member of the military who fires guns; a soldier involved in gunnery.

Cannon Countyname

One of 95 counties in Tennessee, United States. County seat: Woodbury.

cannon foddernoun

Military forces considered to be expendable.

cannonadenoun

The firing of artillery for a length of time.

cannonadernoun

One who fires a cannonade.

cannonadingnoun

A discharge of artillery fire.

cannonballnoun

A spherical projectile fired from a smoothbore cannon.

cannonball mangrovenoun

A species of mangrove, Xylocarpus granatum, having round fruit reminiscent of a cannonball.

cannonball problemname

The challenge of proving that the only solution of the Diophantine equation :∑ₙ₌₁ᴺn²=M²; with N > 1 is when N = 24 and M = 70.

cannonball treenoun

A deciduous tree, Couroupita guianensis, family Lecythidaceae, native to tropical Central and South America and widely cultivated elsewhere.

cannonballernoun

One who cannonballs.

Cannonename

A surname from Italian.

cannonedadj

Furnished with cannon.

cannoneernoun

An artillery soldier who maintains and operates (historical) a cannon, or (now) some other piece of heavy artillery.

cannoneeringnoun

The use of cannon.

cannonernoun

One who fires a cannon; a cannoneer.

cannoniernoun

Alternative form of cannoneer.

Cannonismnoun

Dominance over the House of Representatives and its discussions and debates, like that exerted by Joseph Gurney Cannon (1836–1926), Republican politician.

cannonitenoun

A monoclinic-prismatic colorless mineral containing bismuth, hydrogen, oxygen, and sulfur.

cannonlikeadj

Resembling the shape or sound of a cannon

cannonproofadj

Impenetrable by cannonballs.

cannonrynoun

Cannons, collectively; battery of cannons.

cannotverb

Can not; be unable to (whether due to physical inability, logical impossibility, etc).

cannot butverb

To have to; to cannot help; to be unable to do otherwise than.

cannot helpverb

Alternative form of can't help.

cannot help butverb

Alternative form of cannot but.

cannot make itverb

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see cannot, make it.

cannottverb

Obsolete spelling of cannot

cannulanoun

A tube inserted into the body to drain or inject fluid.

cannulaenoun

plural of cannula

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