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1.nounA 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.nounAny similar device for shooting material out of a tube.
3.nounA bone of a horse's leg, between the fetlock joint and the knee or hock.
4.nounA cannon bit.
5.nounA large muzzle-loading artillery piece.
6.nounA carom."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."
7.nounThe arm of a player that can throw well."He's got a cannon out in right."
8.nounA hollow cylindrical piece carried by a revolving shaft, on which it may, however, revolve independently.
9.noun(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.
10.verbTo bombard with cannons.
11.verbTo play the carom billiard shot. To strike two balls with the cue ball"The white cannoned off the red onto the pink."
12.verbTo fire something, especially spherical, rapidly.
13.verbTo collide or strike violently, especially so as to glance off or rebound.
14.nounA generally accepted principle; a rule."The trial must proceed according to the canons of law."
15.nounA group of literary works that are generally accepted as representing a field.
16.nounThe works of a writer that have been accepted as authentic."the entire Shakespeare canon"
17.nounA eucharistic prayer, particularly the Roman Canon.
18.nounA religious law or body of law decreed by the church."We must proceed according to canon law."
19.nounA catalogue of saints acknowledged and canonized in the Roman Catholic Church.
20.nounIn monasteries, a book containing the rules of a religious order.
21.nounA member of a cathedral chapter; one who possesses a prebend in a cathedral or collegiate church.
22.nounA piece of music in which the same melody is played by different voices, but beginning at different times; a round."Pachelbel’s Canon has become very popular."
23.noun(Roman law) A rent or stipend payable at some regular time, generally annual, e.g., canon frumentarius
24.nounThose sources, especially including literary works, which are considered part of the main continuity regarding a given fictional universe."A spin-off book series revealed the aliens to be originally from Earth, but it's not canon."
25.nounA rolled and filleted loin of meat; also called cannon."a canon of beef or lamb"
26.nounA large size of type formerly used for printing the church canons, standardized as 48-point.
27.nounThe part of a bell by which it is suspended; the ear or shank of a bell.
28.nounA carom.
29.nounA clergy member serving a cathedral or collegiate church.
30.nounA canon regular, a member of any of several Roman Catholic religious orders.
31.nounA 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.