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.
A large muzzle-loading artillery piece.
A carom. Example: In English billiards, a cannon is when one's cue ball strikes the other player's cue ball and the red ball on the same shot; and it is worth two points.
The arm of a player that can throw well. Example: He's got a cannon out in right.
A hollow cylindrical piece carried by a revolving shaft, on which it may, however, revolve independently.
(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.
To bombard with cannons.
To play the carom billiard shot. To strike two balls with the cue ball Example: The white cannoned off the red onto the pink.
To fire something, especially spherical, rapidly.
To collide or strike violently, especially so as to glance off or rebound.
A generally accepted principle; a rule. Example: The trial must proceed according to the canons of law.
A group of literary works that are generally accepted as representing a field.
The works of a writer that have been accepted as authentic. Example: the entire Shakespeare canon
A eucharistic prayer, particularly the Roman Canon.
A religious law or body of law decreed by the church. Example: We must proceed according to canon law.
A catalogue of saints acknowledged and canonized in the Roman Catholic Church.
In monasteries, a book containing the rules of a religious order.
A member of a cathedral chapter; one who possesses a prebend in a cathedral or collegiate church.
A piece of music in which the same melody is played by different voices, but beginning at different times; a round. Example: Pachelbel’s Canon has become very popular.
(Roman law) A rent or stipend payable at some regular time, generally annual, e.g., canon frumentarius
Those sources, especially including literary works, which are considered part of the main continuity regarding a given fictional universe. Example: A spin-off book series revealed the aliens to be originally from Earth, but it's not canon.
A rolled and filleted loin of meat; also called cannon. Example: a canon of beef or lamb
A large size of type formerly used for printing the church canons, standardized as 48-point.
The part of a bell by which it is suspended; the ear or shank of a bell.
A carom.
A clergy member serving a cathedral or collegiate church.
A canon regular, a member of any of several Roman Catholic religious orders.
A Near Eastern and Caucasian musical instrument related to the zither, dulcimer, or harp having either 26 strings and a single bridge, or twice that number and two bridges.
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