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.

3. A bone of a horse's leg, between the fetlock joint and the knee or hock.

verb

1. To bombard with cannons.

2. To play the carom billiard shot. To strike two balls with the cue ball

   “The white cannoned off the red onto the pink.”

3. To fire something, especially spherical, rapidly.

noun

1. A generally accepted principle; a rule.

   “The trial must proceed according to the canons of law.”

2. A group of literary works that are generally accepted as representing a field.

3. The works of a writer that have been accepted as authentic.

   “the entire Shakespeare canon”

Synonyms: French canon

noun

1. A clergy member serving a cathedral or collegiate church.

2. A canon regular, a member of any of several Roman Catholic religious orders.

noun

1. A Near Eastern and Caucasian musical instrument related to the zither, dulcimer, or harp having either 26 strings and a single bridge, or twice that number and two bridges.