Wordie: Cannon

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(n): large but transportable armament

(n): heavy gun fired from a tank

(n): a weapon that discharges a missile at high velocity (especially from a metal tube or barrel)

(n): (Middle Ages) a cylindrical piece of armor plate to protect the arm

(n): specially hardened steel plate used to protect fortifications or vehicles from enemy fire

(n): heavy automatic gun fired from an airplane

(n): a weapon that discharges a missile at high velocity (especially from a metal tube or barrel)

(n): lower part of the leg extending from the hock to the fetlock in hoofed mammals

(n): any part of an organism such as an organ or extremity

(n): a shot in billiards in which the cue ball contacts one object ball and then the other

(n): (sports) the act of swinging or striking at a ball with a club or racket or bat or cue or hand

(v): make a cannon

(v): cause to move by striking

(v): fire a cannon

(v): release from military service

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18 days ago yarb said:

Citation (in the sense of part of a horse's leg) on withers.

8 months ago cathari said:

People who spell this "canon" need to be dragged out in the street and shot. ;)

8 months ago chained_bear said:

Captured at Yorktown and Gloucester, "60 pieces brass cannon, 150 iron ditto (meaning "the same")," as well as "70 barrels powder" (meaning gunpowder) and 80 ships. This, the newspaper notes, is just the beginning of the list: "Remainder not come to hand." (Salem, Mass. Gazette, November 15, 1781)

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