(countable, uncountable) 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.
(countable, uncountable) Any similar device for shooting material out of a tube.
(countable, uncountable) Any similar device for shooting material out of a tube.
(countable, uncountable) A bone of a horse’s leg, between the fetlock joint and the knee or hock.
(countable, uncountable) A rolled and filleted loin of meat.
(countable, uncountable) A cannon bit.
(countable, historical, uncountable) A large muzzle-loading artillery piece.
(countable, uncountable) A carom.
(countable, figuratively, informal, uncountable) The arm of a player who can throw well.
(countable, uncountable) A hollow cylindrical piece carried by a revolving shaft, on which it may, however, revolve independently.
(countable, historical, uncountable) 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.
(alt-of, alternative, uncountable) Alternative form of canon (“a large size of type”).
(countable, uncountable) 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.
(US, countable, slang, uncountable) A pickpocket.

Misspelling of canon.

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