cannons

noun pl. cannons or cannon

1. 1. a large, mounted piece of artillery; sometimes, specif., a large gun with a relatively short barrel, as a howitzer
   2. an automatic gun, mounted on an aircraft
2. a part on a bell by which it is hung
3. cannon bone
4. Mech. a hollow tube within which a shaft revolves independently of the outer tube
5. Billiards, Brit. carom

transitive verb

1. to attack with cannon fire
2. Brit. to cause to carom

intransitive verb

1. to fire cannon
2. Brit. to make a carom