1. cannon - Noun
2. cannon - Adjective
3. cannon - Verb
5. Cannon - Proper noun
of Cannon
A great gun; a piece of ordnance or artillery; a firearm for discharging heavy shot with great force.
A hollow cylindrical piece carried by a revolving shaft, on which it may, however, revolve independently.
A kind of type. See Canon.
See Carom.
Source: Webster's dictionarySmall miseries, like small debts, hit us in so many places, and meet us at so many turns and corners, that what they want in weight, they make up in number, and render it less hazardous to stand the fire of one cannon ball, than a volley composed of such a shower of bullets. Rudyard Kipling
Never. The shot is too big for the cannon. Laurence Olivier
Human nerves quickly get accustomed to the most unusual conditions and circumstances and I noticed that quite a number of men actually fell asleep from sheer exhaustion in the trenches, in spite of the roaring of the cannon about us and the whizzing of shrapnel over our heads. Fritz Kreisler
Using a cannon to shoot a mosquito. Dutch Proverb
When out to kill a fly, don't roll out a cannon to accomplish it. Polish Proverb
Double charging will break a cannon. Latin Proverb