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Cannon

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.

To discharge cannon.

To collide or strike violently, esp. so as to glance off or rebound; to strike and rebound.

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Cannon Quotations

If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots.
Napoleon Bonaparte

The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

I hate small towns because once you've seen the cannon in the park there's nothing else to do.
Lenny Bruce

Small 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

Small debts are like small shot; they are rattling on every side, and can scarcely be escaped without a wound: great debts are like cannon; of loud noise, but little danger.
Samuel Johnson

There will soon come an armed contest between capital and labor. They will oppose each other, not with words and arguments, but with shot and shell, gun-powder and cannon. The better classes are tired of the insane howling of the lower strata and they mean to stop them.
William Tecumseh Sherman

Courtney Love is a loose cannon. She says what she thinks. She's wild on the red carpet. You get the best sound bites from Courtney Love.
Steven Cojocaru

On my left the shooting had the sharp explosion of the infantry artillery, on my right could be heard the sporadic cannon shots thundering from the front, and up above the sky was clear and the sun bright.
Max Beckmann

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

I like somebody who makes me laugh. He's also got to be prepared - I'm sort of a loose cannon, in a good way. I also like people who disagree with me and make me work to prove my point.
Monica Keena

Cannon Translations

cannon in Dutch is canon, kettingzang, kanon, vuurmond
cannon in French is canon, as
cannon in German is Kanone
cannon in Italian is cannone
cannon in Swedish is kanon

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