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What does cannon mean?

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Noun
  1. 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.
  2. Any similar device for shooting material out of a tube.
  3. A bone of a horse's leg, between the fetlock joint and the knee or hock.
  4. (historical) A large muzzle-loading artillery piece.
  5. (sports, billiards, snooker, pool) A carom.
  6. (baseball, figuratively, informal) The arm of a player that can throw well.
  7. (engineering) A hollow cylindrical piece carried by a revolving shaft, on which it may, however, revolve independently.
  8. (printing) Alternative form of canon (a large size of type)
Verb
  1. To bombard with cannons.
  2. (sports, billiards, snooker, pool) To play the carom billiard shot. To strike two balls with the cue ball
  3. To fire something, especially spherical, rapidly.
  4. To collide or strike violently, especially so as to glance off or rebound.
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