cannon

1. (countable, uncountable)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, which may include muzzle appendages.

   Holonyms: gun, field gun; howitzer; mortar

2. (countable, uncountable)Any similar device for shooting material out of a tube.

   water cannon; glitter cannon; confetti cannon; potato cannon

3. Any similar device for shooting material out of a tube.

   (countable, uncountable)An autocannon.

4. (countable, uncountable)A bone of a horse’s leg, between the fetlock joint and the knee or hock.

   lower part of the leg extending from the hock to the fetlock in hoofed mammals

5. (countable, uncountable)A rolled and filleted loin of meat.

   a canon of beef or lamb

6. (countable, uncountable)A cannon bit.

7. (countable, historical, uncountable)A large muzzle-loading artillery piece.

   Near-synonym: gun (often synonymous)

   Kanone

   пу́шкаpúška, ору́диеorúdije

   гарма́таharmáta

   a large artillery gun that is usually on wheels

8. (countable, uncountable)A 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.

   карамбо́льkarambólʹ

9. (countable, figuratively, informal, uncountable)The arm of a player who can throw well.

   He’s got a cannon out in right.

10. (countable, uncountable)A hollow cylindrical piece carried by a revolving shaft, on which it may, however, revolve independently.

11. (countable, historical, uncountable)A cylindrical item of plate armor protecting the arm, particularly one of a pair of such cylinders worn with a couter, the upper cannon protecting the upper arm and the lower cannon protecting the forearm.

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

12. (countable, uncountable)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.

1. Riot police fired tear gas and water cannons at demonstrators.

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2. The police fired tear gas and water cannons at the protesters.

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3. The police fired tear gas and water cannons to disperse the protesters.

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4. Load the cannons.

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5. The soldiers were regarded as cannon fodder.

   Солдатів вважали гарматним м'ясом. — Balamax

   ruСолдат считали пушечным мясом. — Balamax

   deDie Soldaten wurden als Kanonenfutter betrachtet. — Yorwba

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