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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cannon \Can"non\, n.; pl. Cannons, collectively Cannon. [F. cannon, fr. L. canna reed, pipe, tube. See Cane.]
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A great gun; a piece of ordnance or artillery; a firearm for discharging heavy shot with great force.
Note: Cannons are made of various materials, as iron, brass, bronze, and steel, and of various sizes and shapes with respect to the special service for which they are intended, as intended, as siege, seacoast, naval, field, or mountain, guns. They always aproach more or less nearly to a cylindrical from, being usually thicker toward the breech than at the muzzle. Formerly they were cast hollow, afterwards they were cast, solid, and bored out. The cannon now most in use for the armament of war vessels and for seacoast defense consists of a forged steel tube reinforced with massive steel rings shrunk upon it. Howitzers and mortars are sometimes called cannon. See Gun.
(Mech.) A hollow cylindrical piece carried by a revolving shaft, on which it may, however, revolve independently.
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(Printing.) A kind of type. See Canon. Cannon ball, strictly, a round solid missile of stone or iron made to be fired from a cannon, but now often applied to a missile of any shape, whether solid or hollow, made for cannon. Elongated and cylindrical missiles are sometimes called bolts; hollow ones charged with explosives are properly called shells. Cannon bullet, a cannon ball. [Obs.] Cannon cracker, a fire cracker of large size. Cannon lock, a device for firing a cannon by a percussion primer. Cannon metal. See Gun Metal. Cannon pinion, the pinion on the minute hand arbor of a watch or clock, which drives the hand but permits it to be moved in setting. Cannon proof, impenetrable by cannon balls. Cannon shot.
A cannon ball.
The range of a cannon.
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Cannons is the second studio album by American contemporary Christian singer Phil Wickham, released on October 2, 2007, the album is outpacing same week sales of Phil Wickham's debut with more than 40 percent of album sales in digital form. He also debuted on Real Rhapsody’s top artists chart in the Christian/Gospel genre as well as on the Napster top artists chart. In addition, Cannons was a featured new release for both Napster and Sony. The Album debuted at No. 16 on Billboard Christian Albums.
Cannons was a stately home in Little Stanmore, Middlesex, built by James Brydges, 1st Duke of Chandos, between 1713 and 1724 at a cost of £200,000 (equivalent to £ today) but which in 1747 was razed and its contents dispersed.
The name "Cannons" is an obsolete spelling of " canons" and refers to the Augustinian canons of St Bartholomew's Hospital, London, which owned the estate before the English Reformation.
Cannons was the focus of the first Duke's artistic patronage – patronage which led to his nickname "The Apollo of the Arts". Brydges filled Cannons with Old Masters and Grand Tour acquisitions, and also appointed Handel as resident house composer from 1717 to 1718. Such was the fame of Cannons that members of the public flocked to visit the estate in great numbers and Alexander Pope was unjustly accused of having represented the house as "Timon's Villa" in his Epistle Of Taste (1731).
The Cannons estate was acquired by Chandos in 1713 from the uncle of his first wife, Mary Lake. Mary's great-grandfather Sir Thomas Lake had acquired the manor of Great Stanmore in 1604. Following the first Duke's death in 1744, Cannons passed to his son Henry Brydges, 2nd Duke of Chandos. Due to the cost of building Cannons and significant losses to the family fortune in the South Sea Bubble there was little liquid capital in Henry's inheritance, so in 1747 he held a twelve-day demolition sale at Cannons which saw both the contents and the very structure of the house itself sold piecemeal leaving little more than a ruin barely thirty years after its inception. The subsequent villa built by William Hallett is now occupied by North London Collegiate School.
Usage examples of "cannons".
I will fight the Lissens without cannons and you will be weaker than you are now, with no navy.
They were the old-fashioned shot-firing cannons, but they were still effective.
As she drew nearer, her outline gained definition and her twin port flame cannons glowed.
She ran to the starboard rail where the cannons waited, because she had been trained on the guns and could take up the task if a cannoneer fell.
The powerful heat from the cannons had singed her hands and skin, raising a red welt on the left side of her face.
Shii studied her black decks and spiked hull and the flame cannons poking out from her gun deck.
We have to draw him into a shallow fight, surround him with cannons with no way out.
Similar ones stood on the outskirts of the capital, armed with flame cannons to repel assaults.
As for the cannons, they would have to be cannibalized from some of the schooners, a risky move since Nicabar would no doubt arrive with escort ships.
We will get the cannons in place, and the blockade of rocks into the river.
And arms were another speciality of the duke, who had already purchased cannons and shot from Doria.
She was on the east side of the river, and from her place among the rocks and bramble she could barely detect the cannons on the opposite cliff.
Hidden behind leaves and camouflaged with branches, the cannons would be invisible from the river below.
It was a bright afternoon, and she worried that the sun might glint off their cannons, exposing them.
The big dreadnought still had her flame cannons ready, searching the hills for targets.