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▸ noun:  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.
▸ noun:  Any similar device for shooting material out of a tube.
▸ noun:  (military, chiefly aviation) An autocannon.
▸ noun:  A bone of a horse’s leg, between the fetlock joint and the knee or hock.
▸ noun:  (cooking) A rolled and filleted loin of meat.
▸ noun:  A cannon bit.
▸ noun:  (historical) A large muzzle-loading artillery piece.
▸ noun:  (sports, billiards, snooker, pool) A carom.
▸ noun:  (baseball, figuratively, informal) The arm of a player who can throw well.
▸ noun:  (engineering) A hollow cylindrical piece carried by a revolving shaft, on which it may, however, revolve independently.
▸ noun:  (historical) A 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.
▸ noun:  (xiangqi) 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.
▸ noun:  (US, slang) A pickpocket.
▸ verb:  To bombard with cannons.
▸ verb:  (sports, billiards, snooker, pool) To play the carom billiard shot; to strike two balls with the cue ball.
▸ verb:  To fire something, especially spherical, rapidly.
▸ verb:  To collide or strike violently, especially so as to glance off or rebound.
▸ noun:  A surname.
▸ noun:  (printing, uncountable) Alternative form of canon (“a large size of type”) [A generally accepted principle; a rule.]
▸ noun:  (fandom slang) Misspelling of canon. [A generally accepted principle; a rule.]
▸ adjective:  (fandom slang) Misspelling of canon.

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