cannon

Definitions

• 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.
• Any similar device for shooting material out of a tube.
• A bone of a horse's leg, between the fetlock joint and the knee or hock.
• A cannon bit.
• (historical) A large muzzle-loading artillery piece.
• (sports) A carom.
• (baseball) The arm of a player that can throw well.
• (engineering) A hollow cylindrical piece carried by a revolving shaft, on which it may, however, revolve independently.
• (printing) (alternative form of) canon (a large size of type)
• (Chinese chess) 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.