Heavy automatic gun fired from an airplane

Usage examples of cannon.

Memphis from New Orleans, even the narrow strip on either side swept by their cannon was safe at any point only while they were abreast it.

I hastened to the aperture, and under the crustations of coral, covered with fungi, syphonules, alcyons, madrepores, through myriads of charming fish--girelles, glyphisidri, pompherides, diacopes, and holocentres--I recognised certain debris that the drags had not been able to tear up--iron stirrups, anchors, cannons, bullets, capstan fittings, the stem of a ship, all objects clearly proving the wreck of some vessel, and now carpeted with living flowers.

The energy cannon at the bow was purposely not aimed at the baleen, but it was manned.

Winnipeg port authorities had installed two 20-cm plasma cannon on separate armored barbettes in the center of the civil field.

It was one of the new ones with the big, homely turret that housed a bigger, nastier cannon.

Among the exhibits were such strange items as a small cannon that fired beer cans filled with concrete: it had once belonged to a bikie gang, we were told.

Gomblick said and looked up at the massive latticework of power busses that led to the ion cannons.

The crew watched the first triumphant French ships cruise through the waterway, firing celebratory cannons and waving colorful banners.

The lists of cannons, guns, and arms of all kinds in the inventories of the Chaco towns, preserved by Brabo, serve to show not only the dangers to which the Jesuits were exposed, but also how thoroughly the Jesuits understood the fickle nature of those with whom they lived.

Italian livres on the Cisalpine Republic, for the price of cannon furnished.

The Cisalpine Republic kept the cannons and the money, and the First Consul kept his bill.

In the beginning of March the carl of Athlone and monsieur de Coehorn, with the concurrence of the duke of Holstein-Ploen, who commanded the allies, sent a strong detachment of horse, drafted from Brussels and the neighbouring garrisons, to amuse the enemy on the side of Charleroy, while they assembled forty squadrons, thirty battalions, with fifteen pieces of cannon, and six mortars, in the territory of Namur.

And then again, Alan was an unknown to Cozy, and might be a loose cannon.

There would be no enticing Cushie to the cannons this weekend, Garp knew.

Phil Dobe took out a gun that looked like a cannon and started inspecting it.