Cannon can be categorized as a noun and a verb.
Verb |
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| cannon - fire a cannon | ||
| cannon - make a cannon | ||
Noun |
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| cannon - a large artillery gun that is usually on wheels | ||
| cannon - (Middle Ages) a cylindrical piece of armor plate to protect the arm | ||
| cannon - lower part of the leg extending from the hock to the fetlock in hoofed mammals | ||
| cannon - heavy automatic gun fired from an airplane | ||
| cannon - heavy gun fired from a tank | ||
| cannon - a shot in billiards in which the cue ball contacts one object ball and then the other |
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| 1. | noun | the irish customs we have in our family are; we make sinnel cake for easter ,barn brack and col-cannon for Halloween. | |
| 2. | noun | The cannon went off by accident. | |
| 3. | noun | Never use a cannon to kill a fly. | |
| 4. | noun | The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a deal longer. | |
| 5. | noun | This church was destroyed by cannon fire. | |
| 6. | noun | This problem certainly requires a solution, but that's like shooting a cannon at sparrows. | |
| 7. | noun | He's a loose cannon. | |
| 8. | noun | The sound of a kiss is not as loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts much longer. | |
| 9. | noun | The cannon! They're loading the cannon! Why? Ah! They're going to shoot! Pick up speed - one, two, one, two! | |
| 10. | noun | "It's a cannon shot, is it not?" I nodded. | |
| 11. | noun | The soldiers were regarded as cannon fodder. | |
| 12. | noun | It is true that there are some people even so utterly without imagination that they cannot take a joke; such as that grave man of Scotland who was at last plainly told by a funny friend quite out of patience, “Why, you wouldn’t take a joke if it were fired at you out of a cannon!” “Sir,” replied the Scot, with sound reasoning and grave thought, “Sir, you are absurd. You cannot fire a joke out of a cannon!”. | |
| 13. | noun | Sami was a loose cannon. | |
| 14. | noun | Tom is a loose cannon. | |
| 15. | noun | That same evening the bride and bridegroom embarked, amidst the roar of cannon and the waving of banners. |
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| the irish customs we have in our family are; we make sinnel cake for easter ,barn brack and col-cannon for Halloween. |
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| The cannon went off by accident. | |
| Never use a cannon to kill a fly. | |
| The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a deal longer. | |
| This church was destroyed by cannon fire. | |
| This problem certainly requires a solution, but that's like shooting a cannon at sparrows. | |
| He's a loose cannon. | |
| The sound of a kiss is not as loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts much longer. | |
| The cannon! They're loading the cannon! Why? Ah! They're going to shoot! Pick up speed - one, two, one, two! | |
| "It's a cannon shot, is it not?" I nodded. | |
| The soldiers were regarded as cannon fodder. | |
| It is true that there are some people even so utterly without imagination that they cannot take a joke; such as that grave man of Scotland who was at last plainly told by a funny friend quite out of patience, “Why, you wouldn’t take a joke if it were fired at you out of a cannon!” “Sir,” replied the Scot, with sound reasoning and grave thought, “Sir, you are absurd. You cannot fire a joke out of a cannon!”. | |
| Sami was a loose cannon. | |
| Tom is a loose cannon. | |
| That same evening the bride and bridegroom embarked, amidst the roar of cannon and the waving of banners. | |