cannon

Etymology 1
Attested from around 1400 as, , from , from , from , from , from , from. .

This spelling was not fixed until about 1800.

Noun

 * 1) 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. It may include muzzle appendages.
 * 2) Any similar device for shooting material out of a tube.
 * , glitter cannon, confetti cannon, potato cannon
 * 1)  An autocannon.
 * 2) A bone of a horse's leg, between the fetlock joint and the knee or hock.
 * 3) A cannon bit.
 * 4)  A large muzzle-loading artillery piece.
 * 5)  A carom.
 * 6)  The arm of a player who can throw well.
 * 7)  A hollow cylindrical piece carried by a revolving shaft, on which it may, however, revolve independently.
 * 8)  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.
 * 9)  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.
 * 10)  A pickpocket.
 * 1)  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.
 * 2)  A pickpocket.
 * 1)  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.
 * 2)  A pickpocket.
 * 1)  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.
 * 2)  A pickpocket.
 * 1)  A pickpocket.

Translations

 * Abkhaz: абзарбзан
 * Afrikaans: kanon
 * Albanian:
 * Amharic: መድፍ
 * Arabic:
 * Egyptian Arabic: مدفع
 * Hijazi Arabic: مِدْفَع
 * South Levantine Arabic: مدفع
 * Armenian:
 * Assamese: হিলৈ, তোপ
 * Asturian:
 * Azerbaijani: döyüş topu,
 * Basque: kanoi
 * Belarusian:, пу́шка
 * Bengali: ,
 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Burmese:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, , ,
 * Chuvash: тупӑ
 * Czech:
 * Danish: kanon
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: kanono,
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: ქვემეხი
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Guaraní: kañõ
 * Gujarati: તોપ
 * Hawaiian: pū kuni ahi, olohao
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi: ,
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Icelandic: fallbyssa
 * Indonesian:
 * Irish: canóin
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:, キャノン, カノン砲
 * Javanese: mriem
 * Kabardian:
 * Kalmyk: тов
 * Kannada:
 * Kashubian: ,
 * Kazakh: зеңбірек
 * Khmer: កាំភ្លើងមេរៀម, កាំភ្លើងធំ
 * Korean: ,
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish: لولەتۆپ
 * Northern Kurdish:, ,
 * Kyrgyz:
 * Lao:
 * Latin: tormentum, pyrobolus
 * Latvian: lielgabals
 * Lezgi: туп
 * Lithuanian: patranka
 * Luxembourgish: Kanoun
 * Macedonian: топ
 * Malagasy: ,
 * Malay: ,
 * Malayalam: പീരങ്കി
 * Manchu: ᡦᠣᠣ
 * Maori: pū repo
 * Marathi: तोफ
 * Middle English: canon, bombard
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic: их буу
 * Nanai: пао
 * Nauruan:
 * Nepali: तोप
 * Norman: canon
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Occitan:
 * Old East Slavic: пушка, пушька
 * Ottoman Turkish: طوپ
 * Pashto:
 * Persian:
 * Plautdietsch: Kanoon
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Quechua: hatun illapa, kañun
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: ,
 * Samogitian: armata
 * Sanskrit:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: то̏п
 * Roman:
 * Slovak: delo
 * Slovene:
 * Sorbian:
 * Lower Sorbian: kanuna
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog:
 * Tajik: тӯп
 * Tarifit: rburqi
 * Telugu:
 * Thai:
 * Tigrinya: መድፍዕ
 * Turkish:, savaş topu
 * Turkmen: top
 * Ukrainian:
 * Urdu: توپ
 * Uyghur: توپ
 * Uzbek:
 * Vietnamese: (砲), đại pháo (大砲), súng thần công
 * Volapük:
 * Welsh: canon, canonau
 * Zhuang: bauq


 * Czech: kanón
 * Finnish:


 * Bulgarian: карамбо́л
 * Czech:
 * Greek:
 * Italian:
 * Macedonian: карамбол
 * Polish:
 * Russian:


 * Finnish:, heittokäsi


 * Georgian:

Verb

 * 1) To bombard with cannons.
 * 2)  To play the carom billiard shot; to strike two balls with the cue ball.
 * 3) To fire something, especially spherical, rapidly.
 * 4) To collide or strike violently, especially so as to glance off or rebound.
 * 1) To collide or strike violently, especially so as to glance off or rebound.
 * 1) To collide or strike violently, especially so as to glance off or rebound.

Translations

 * Finnish:, ampua tykillä,
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian: cannonare ,


 * Czech: zahrát karambol
 * Manx: aavenn


 * Finnish: