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Meaning of cannon

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  cannon
      n 1: a large artillery gun that is usually on wheels
      2: heavy gun fired from a tank
      3: (Middle Ages) a cylindrical piece of armor plate to protect
         the arm
      4: heavy automatic gun fired from an airplane
      5: lower part of the leg extending from the hock to the fetlock
         in hoofed mammals [syn: {cannon}, {shank}]
      6: a shot in billiards in which the cue ball contacts one object
         ball and then the other [syn: {carom}, {cannon}]
      v 1: make a cannon
      2: fire a cannon

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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