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The correct spelling is cannons.
How to pronounce cannons
noun
Say it like: Can-non-s
The correct spelling is cannons. 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 muzz… For example: "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."
Usage Examples
“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.”
“He's got a cannon out in right.”
“The white cannoned off the red onto the pink.”
Meanings
noun
- 1.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.
- 2.Any similar device for shooting material out of a tube.
- 3.A bone of a horse's leg, between the fetlock joint and the knee or hock.
- 4.A cannon bit.
- 5.A large muzzle-loading artillery piece.
verb
- 1.To bombard with cannons.
- 2.To play the carom billiard shot. To strike two balls with the cue ball
- 3.To fire something, especially spherical, rapidly.
- 4.To collide or strike violently, especially so as to glance off or rebound.
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