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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.

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 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.