Definition of Cannon

Cannibal

CANNON noun

	An instrument employed in the rectification of national boundaries.

		definition from: *The Devil's Dictionary* by Ambrose Bierce, 1911

Canonicals

Regular definition:

CANNON:
???kæn?n n. & v. --n. 1 hist. (pl. same) a large heavy gun installed on a carriage or mounting. 2 an automatic aircraft gun firing shells. 3 Billiards the hitting of two balls successively by the cue-ball. 4 Mech. a hollow cylinder moving independently on a shaft. 5 (in full cannon-bit) a smooth round bit for a horse. --v.intr. 1 (usu. foll. by against, into) collide heavily or obliquely. 2 Billiards make a cannon shot. øcannon-ball hist. a large usu. metal ball fired by a cannon. cannon-bone the tube-shaped bone between the hock and fetlock of a horse. cannon-fodder soldiers regarded merely as material to be expended in war. [F canon f. It. cannone large tube f. canna CANE: in Billiards sense f. older CAROM]

Last updated: 9/3/2011 12:48:30