cannon

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a large heavy gun for firing metal balls or shells

   The fortress still had an old cannon by the gate.

2. 2
   noun

   a billiards shot in which one ball strikes two others

   He won the frame with a difficult cannon.

3. 3
   verb

   to collide heavily or rebound with force

   The ball cannoned off the wall.

From Middle English canon, from Old French canon and Italian cannone, from Latin canna ("reed, tube"), ultimately from Ancient Greek κάννα ("reed").

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