cannon
/ˈkæn.ən/ verb C2- To bombard with cannons.
- To play the carom billiard shot; to strike two balls with the cue ball. · The white cannoned off the red onto the pink.
- To fire something, especially spherical, rapidly.
- To collide or strike violently, especially so as to glance off or rebound.
He/she/it cannons · Past cannoned · Past participle cannoned · -ing form cannoning
Verb forms
- Base form
- cannon
- He/she/it
- cannons
- Past
- cannoned
- Past participle
- cannoned
- -ing form
- cannoning
From the library
And to fire the penny cannon in the bow.
“I’d rather walk up to a cannon’s mouth.
Again a head shot swiftly out, and the great Lion went rolling down the hill as if he had been struck by a cannon ball.
The cannon will warn everyone to refuse shelter to a man wandering about naked and famished.
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