Usually means: Firing projectiles using explosive force.
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  1. cannoning: Merriam-Webster
  2. cannoning: Collins English Dictionary
  3. cannoning: Vocabulary.com
  4. cannoning: Wordnik
  5. cannoning: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. cannoning: Wiktionary
  7. cannoning: Dictionary.com
  8. cannoning: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. cannoning: Encyclopedia

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  1. cannoning: Medical dictionary

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(Note: See cannon as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (cannon)

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.
▸ Also see cannon


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